|
Accused in the Dutroux ( X) dossiers, the Maud Sarr
and Pink Ballets affairs
| Christian Amory |
b. 1952
|
Source(s): X1 (1 of the 8 persons picked
by X1 on September 30, 1996 out of 40 pictures presented to her
(how many real pictures there ranges from "several" to about
20). Four of the persons she pointed out intrigued De Baets and
seemed to confirm his suspicions that cars of the gendarmerie's
Diana Group (similar to SWAT) were involved. However, X1 also
misidentified at least three, and maybe four pictures, and this
time it really was a mistake (as opposed to all the
manipulations by the "re-readers" later on). The X-Dossiers: "X1
identified Madani Bouhouche as the very violent driver of the
BMW who took her to 'the factory' [the rape, torture and murder
room at the ASCO factory] and Christian Amory as a sort of slave
driver who brought her and her fellow victims to recording
studios or parks where older men shot at hunted children.")
Gendarme officer. Officer in the BOB. Part of Madani
Bouhouche's militant Nazi group to some day conduct a
terror-extortion campaign against warehouses. Worked in the
Walloon-Brabant cell that investigated the Gang of Nijvel (in
which he would become a main suspect). Together with the Nazi
Jean-Francis Calmette (OAS terrorist;
Wackenhut director; instructor at the CIA-NATO-sponsored secret
fascist training camps of Front de la Jeunesse in the Ardennes,
which were overseen by DIA-NATO agent Paul Latinus, another
Nazi) associated with the mercenary firm Contact in
Brussels, and its business in Africa. Convicted in 2003,
together with Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin and Pierre de Bonvoisin,
for having forged KGB documents to prove a "vast left-wing
conspiracy" against Benoit involving State Security (which had
been targeted by US intelligence and Benoit ever since its head
exposed them for cultivating a fascist underground). De
Bonvoisin was one the most important player in Belgium's
CIA-NATO-linked, fascist, militant underground, and has been
accused by X1 and X2 of (extreme) child rape, torture and
murder. His immediate associates have been accused by even more
witnesses. |
| Gen. Rene Bats
|
b. 1930
|
Source(s): X1 (when shown pictures, X1
identified Bats as one of her customers); Raemaekers (this
convicted untrustworthy paedophile claimed he had met Bats
several times at Cercle des Nations. Claimed Bats liked boys and
was introduced to him by Jean-Paul Dumont (accused by a number
of others of being a sadistic child abuser). Claimed Bats was an
acquaintance of Renaud Coppieters 't Wallant (another gay
paedophile, according to Raemaekers), who was a member of the
PSC, Cercle des Nations, the Lion's Club and the Rotary, and
owned an import-export business in Congo)
Major-General in the Belgian army. United Nations expert who
inspected POW camps in Iran and Iraq after the war between these
two countries ended in 1988. The inspection had a special
interest in how captured Iraqis might have been brainwashed by
the Iranians to support the Ayatollah. Commander of the Order of
Leopold. Director of the Order of Leopold since 2000. |
| Gen. Fernand Beaurir |
unknown
|
Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair;
Maud Sarr (not very reliable, but
interestingly mentioned together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and
Jean Depretre, who have been accused by other sources as well);
Pol Postal (a witness who worked at Institut Dechamps (a
private college/university preparatory school for law students).
Told how young girls of Institut Dechamps maintained sexual
relationships with General Beaurir, how this general abused his
owned daughter and how he forced his daughter into supplying him
and some of his associates with other girls (PV 150.259/97)).
Gendarme General. Educated to become a Gendarme officer
during WWII. After taking a Nazi-inspired oath of allegiance, he
became a Gendarme officer in Walloon in a unit that fought the
resistance. Briefly arrested in the aftermath of WWII for
collaboration, but soon released. Eventually rose to corps
commandant, the highest position in the Gendarmerie. In 1979,
Beaurir's name came up during a search of the homes of Lydia
Montaricourt and Fortunato Israel, who ran a prostitution
network for high level officials, up to Belgian and Saudi
princes, and employees of Adnan Khashoggi. Prosecutor of the
king Jean Depretre covered up the whole investigation. May 16,
1997, Tony Van Parys, head of the Gang Commission, to De
Standaard about the connections of Fortunato Israel and her
follow-up Lydia Montaricourt: "Among their contacts were
very highly placed persons: the commandant of the gendarmerie
lieutenant-general Fernand Beaurir, arms dealer Roger Boas, and
through the latter Paul Vanden Boeynants." These three men
all have been accused of child abuse. Became a close associate
of Paul Vanden Boeynants and Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin who ran
the post-WWII fascist underground in Belgium. Became head of the
National Bureau for Drugs (NBD) of the Gendarmerie in 1978. The
NBD was created by Paul Vanden Boeynants and General Leon
Fernand Francois (invited by the US Army's
CID in 1969; educated by the DEA; received by President Nixon;
secretary of the International Drug Enforcement Association;
founded the gendarmerie's National Bureau for Drugs (NBD) in the
1972-1975 period with Paul "VdB" Vanden Boeynants and CIA
support, and became the NBD's initial head; always present at
the border when a new large shipment of marihuana and cocaine of
VdB's company was smuggled into Belgium; leading member of the
subversive and fascist Group G, together with DEA agent Frank
Eaton; provided the CIA chief in Belgium with intelligence about
leftists and other dissident groups; accused in 1990 by
prostitute Maud Sarr of involvement in orgies with minors,
together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and Jean Depretre (both
accused by other sources as well); one of his successors at the
NBD, general Beaurir was also accused of pedophilia and was also
part of the CEPIC circle) in the 1972-1975 period. The
CIA provided training for the NBD and delivered many, often
questionable, informants. In return General Francois would give
the CIA chief in Belgium intelligence about leftists and other
dissident groups. In 1979, in the Pinon Affair which never
became an affair, General Beaurir was named as a person who
attended parties at which underaged girls were abused. Others
named were Paul Vanden Boeynants, Guy Mathot, Ado Blaton and
Prince Albert (later King Albert II). In 1979, a BOB officer
began reporting on corruption in the NBD and how top level
officers were involved in the drug trade themselves. Internally,
nothing was done by Beaurir, or his good friend General Robert
"Bob" Bernaert, who was head of the Internal Affairs department
of the Gendarmerie (not to mention a member of the Marnixring, a
hard-right Dutch-Flemish counterpart to the Rotary and Lion's
Club). This led the BOB officer to inform the Justice Department
after which all hell broke loose. Francois was arrested in
January 1980 and a large public investigation into the NBD
began. While interrogating Francois and his NBD associates, two
chief investigators, Major Herman Vernaillen and BOB adjutant
Guy Goffinon, were told how they couldn't touch their suspects
because they were protected by Paul Vanden Boeynants and Baron
Benoit de Bonvoisin. On top of that, General Beaurir and other
senior Gendarme officers began sabotaging the investigation. In
late 1981, Vernaillen and Goffinon received a tip that huge
quantities of drugs, hidden inside frozen meat, were smuggled
into Belgium. The firm responsible, Boucheries Ghysels, turned
out to be chaired and partly-owned by Paul Vanden Boeynants,
while General Francois was always present at the border when a
new large shipment of marijuana and cocaine of this company was
smuggled into Belgium. That these drug transports were going on
was already known for three years, but they were never
intercepted. It is known that Vanden Boeynants contacted General
Beaurir in mid November 1981 to inquire about the drug
investigation into his company, although the details of this
conversation have remained a closely-guarded secret. Around this
time, Goffinon advised the Justice Department to arrest Paul
Vanden Boeynants and place drug trafficking charges against him.
No action was undertaken. On October 12, 1981, Goffinon survived
an assassination attempt. A bomb went off in his car while three
other officers were driving in it. Fortunately, only about a
third of the bomb went off. The person who had constructed the
ignition mechanism, a US fighter pilot named Jean-Francois
Buslik, turned out to be a good friend of both US narcotics
specialist Frank Eaton and Madani Bouhouche. Vernaillen survived
an assassination attempt on October 26 although he, and
especially his wife, were badly shot up. Evidence in this failed
assassination strongly pointed to involvement of Paul Vanden
Boeynants, Jean-Francois Buslik, Madani Bouhouche and the
counter-terrorist branch of the Gendarmerie, but as usual no
arrests were made. Interesting detail: Vernaillen almost
certainly escaped an assassination attempt several hours
earlier, because he was riding along in the car of Gendarme
officer Joris Vivelle, instead of a regular Gendarme car.
Vivelle's son was kidnapped in southern France in 1989 (probably
during the summer vacation from June to August) and found back
badly mutilated. Several months earlier, in May 1989, Herman
Vernaillen, now a Lt.-Col. in the Gendarmerie, supplied Andre
Bourgeois, head of an investigating committee, with names of
people who back in 1980 were trying to destabilize the Belgium
state. This was done in order to bring in a more hard-right
government. The names given by Vernaillen included Paul Vanden
Boeynants, Jose Desmarets (former PSC vice premier) Jean Militis
(special forces Col.; CEPIC; PRL member of parliament), Lt.-Gen.
Vivario (Army chief of staff) prosecutor Raymond Charles and
General Beaurir. Vernaillen had been given these names in 1980
by Leon Finne, a former CEPIC member and banker who used to be
involved in illegal arms sales. Coincidentally, Finne was
assassinated by the Gang of Nijvel on September 27, 1985. On
November 29, 1989, adjutant Guy Dussart of the BOB in Waverse
testified in a closed session of the parliamentary investigating
committee that he was approached in December 1985 - March 1986
by two senior high nobility figures who belonged to Opus Dei.
They explained to him that at least 9 important members of Opus
Dei in addition to several officers and generals of the
Gendarmerie and the army were working to destabilize the country
and as a result transfer all power to the king. Dussart
mentioned the same names as Lieutenant-Colonel Vernaillen,
including General Beaurir and Paul Vanden Boeynants (both
belonged to Opus Dei). Dussart also said that the aborted 1973
coup, named "l'Ordre Blue", involved some of the same players as
the coup prepared in the 1980s. In 1988, examining magistrate
Jean-Michel Schlicker, tasked with investigating the Gang of
Nijvel, stated that the investigation into the clientele of the
Trois Canards inn had been closed down prematurely, because
General Beaurir, not to mention Paul Vanden Boeynants,
frequently went to eat there. Les Trois Canards had been robbed
by Gang of Nijvel members in October 1983. Before leaving, the
two robbers took the owner, CEPIC member Jacques van Camp, with
them to the parking lot and shot him dead. The bullet that
killed van Camp turned out to have come from a Gendarme gun
stolen during a Gang of Nijvel robbery two weeks earlier.
Interestingly, van Camp was said to have been a good friend of
Jacques Fourez and Elise Dewit, CEPIC members and sexclub
managers who often frequented his restaurant. Jacques Fourez,
Elise Dewit and Van Camp were all believed to have been involved
with the so called Pink Ballets (orgies where children were
abused). Jacques Fourez and Elise Dewit had been executed by the
Gang of Nijvel two weeks before, during the robbery where the
gun was stolen that would later kill van Camp. According to X2,
her pimp Oliver Castiaux knew Jacques van Camp well. According
to Pol Postal, a witness who worked at Institut Dechamps (a
private college/university preparatory school for law students),
Jean-Paul Dumont (linked to child abuse by X1, X2 and Jacques
Thoma), who apparently worked as a teacher at Institut Dechamps
in 1981-1982, regularly went to the Trois Canards and attended
the funeral of van Camp. Postal also told how young girls of
Institut Dechamps maintained sexual relationships with General
Beaurir, how this general abused his own daughter and how he
forced his daughter into supplying him and some of his
associates with other girls (PV 150.259/97). Beaurir is said to
have been a member of Opus Dei. |
| Albert Bert |
1927-2002
|
Source(s): X1 (present at child
abuse parties with Nihoul, Bouty, Vander Elst, etc.)
Took over Cinema Majestic from his father in the 1960s.
Turned it into the first dual room movie theater in Belgium in
1970. Opened the Trioscoop (3 screens) in Hasselt in 1971.
Opened the Pentascoop (5 screens) in Kortrijk in 1975. Opened
the Decascoop (10 screens) in Gent in 1981. Founded Decatron NV
in 1981, a firm focused on the development and building of movie
theaters. Opened the first megaplex (cinema with more than 16
screens) in the world in Brussels in 1988. Opened Metropolis in
Antwerp in 1993. De Bert and Claeys families built two Kinepolis
cinemas in 1995 and 1996. The Bert and Claeys families merged
their interests in December 1997 under the name Kinepolis Group
NV. Kinepolis built movie theaters in Thionville (France),
Mulhouse (France), Nimes (France), Schaffhausen (Switzerland),
Pioltello (Italy), Madrid (Spain), Valencia (Spain), Poznan
(Polen). Chairman of Kinepolis Group NV until his death in 2002.
Received the Insead Innovator Prize and was named Manager of the
Year by Knack Magazine. |
| Joost Bert |
b. 1956
|
Source(s): X1
(present at child abuse parties with Nihoul, Bouty, Vander Elst,
etc.)
Oldest son of Albert Bert. CEO of Kinepolis Group NV, which
has been expanding in Nancy, Oostende and Brugge. Runs
marathons. |
| Henri Bil |
b. 1950
|
Source(s): X1 (PV 150.889: When
about 8 years old, X1 was picked up in the middle of the night
by Tony and the driver of VDB, who took her to the ASCO factory
for abuse. Nihoul, Anne Bouty, Roger [seemingly Roger Boas,
owner of ASCO] and VDB were waiting at the factory.); X2 (said
Bil was often in the presence of Lionel Ruth, apparently a
gendarme officer later tasked with solving the Gang of Nijvel
case. At the Dolo she saw Bil talk to Madani Bouhouche,
suspected of having been a member of the Gang of Nijvel and a
rapist of X1)
Worked at Taxis Metropol, a taxi company. Private driver and
confidante of Paul Vanden Boeynants 1971-1978. Did various low
profile jobs, mainly for VDB's PSC party. Known to have gone to
Pataya, Thailand in June 1994 and bragged he had sex with 14
year old girls there. Others have stated he went as a
sex-tourist to Thailand and was very well known to underage
prostitutes. Went to St.-Dominique, an island in the West
Indies, and Kenya in Africa in 1995. Also went to Tunis in
northern Africa. Often went to private clubs in the Netherlands.
Was trying to set up an import-export business in tires with his
brother in Hungary in January 1995. Claimed he didn't know
Nihoul personally, but said he had heard that Nihoul was the
right-hand man of Baron de Bonvoisin (PV 39.027). Others have
stated that Bil did know Nihoul personally and that he even
drove him around sometimes. X1 has stated Bil was an associate
of Tony and that he brought them to parties where Nihoul and VDB
were. X2 said she saw Bil often in the presence of a Gendarme
officer named Lionel Ruth. It's probably no coincidence that a
Gendarme officer with the same name was the investigating chief
of the Waals-Brabant cell in the 1990s and early 2000s, which
was still tasked with solving the Gang of Nijvel case, two
decades after its reign of terror. X2 had seen Bil at the Dolo,
where Nihoul also went, and saw him speak there with Madani
Bouhouche, a chief suspect in the Gang of Nijvel case. Another
frequent contact of Bil, according to X2, was Yves Zimmer, head
of the sexual abuse department of the Brussels police from 1982
to 1987. Owned four horses and a trailer. |
| Ado Blaton |
-
|
Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair
Real Estate broker. Together with Charly DePauw he built Parc
Savoy where Cercle des Nations was located and people like
Michel Nihoul came to party. Member of Cercle des Nations, which
was founded in 1969. Together with Charly DePauw he was an
investor in Baron Bonoît de Bonvoisin's Promotion & Distribution
Générales (PDG) NV, located at the same address as CEPIC. In
return for their investments PDG created fake invoices for De
Pauw, Blaton, and others. |
| Roger Boas |
1938-2006
|
Source(s): X1 (His ASCO factory in Zaventem
is named as a place where videotaped child sacrifices and
tortures took place. Participated in some of the abuse)
Owner and head of ASCO Industries SA, today a private
aerospace contractor with clients that include Airbus, Boeing,
Bombardier-Canadair, and Embraer. It is a partner in major
aeronautical programs such as Falcon 900 and 2000, Gulfstream V,
Mirage 2000, Airbus A380 and almost all of the Airbus- and
Boeing-family airplanes. The main components it produces are
flaps and slats (wing parts), engine mounts, landing gear
components and brake drums. ASCO used be the major arms supplier
to the Belgian army and receive government contracts from
befriended politicians such as Paul Vanden Boeynants. According
to the Boas family, ASCO turned away from arms manufacturing,
because of the unstable and unpredictable market, especially in
a country with influential socialist policies. Roger was a very
close business partner of Paul Vanden Boeynants in the 1970s and
1980s. Roger Boas, together with Paul Vanden Boeynants, Baron
Benoît de Bonvoisin, Charly De Pauw, Ado Blaton, and King Albert
II (then Prince) were involved in the Eurosystem Hospitalier
deal in Saudi-Arabia to build and exploit hospitals for the
NATO-trained Saudi National Guard. The deal blew up in 1979
after it was found out that hundreds of millions of dollars in
bribes and commissions had been paid. Fortunato Israel, Boas'
girlfriend, ran a European-wide prostitution ring, which was
used by Boas to reward (potential) business partners. Although
Israel was briefly questioned about the Eurosystem affair and
her prostitution network, she was never charged with anything.
She left Belgium and settled in Malta where she became the
executive secretary of a local ASCO branch. This ASCO branch was
located on an abandoned British military airport at which Vanden
Boeynants established his own meat processing company,
Mediterranean Meat Company, somewhere in 1981. VDB's company and
ASCO-Malta shared the same address and accountants. Vanden
Boeynants at that point was under investigation for his alleged
involvement in shipping massive quantities of hard drugs, hidden
in frozen meat, into Belgium. Although his arrest was advised by
one of the chief investigators in this case, who narrowly
escaped an assassination, VDB was never touched. Boas was a
member of Cercle des Nations and CEPIC, together with Vanden
Boeynants, Baron de Bonvoisin and other extremists. Sentenced to
15 months probation and a fine of 500,000 Belgian franks for
forgery and fiscal fraud. Became an officer in the Order of
Leopold II in 2004. Today Roger's son Christian is a member of
Cercle de Lorraine (expanded follow-up of Cercle des Nations)
and CEO of ASCO Industries. Emile Boas is also a member of the
board, just as Francis Vermeiren, mayor of Zaventem and an
influential right-wing liberal member of parliament; Trudo
Motmans, an influential corporate lawyer; and Count Guy de
Marnix, head of Private Banking at ING Belgium whose father
married into the very noble de Croy family (closely related to
the Chimay family, which is accused of having organized child
huntings at their private domain). In the 1980s, when still
manufacturing and selling weapons, ASCO had Efraim Poran on its
board, a high level Israeli military officer and arms dealer who
is said to have been a Mossad agent. |
| Paul Vanden Boeynants |
1919-2001
|
Source(s): Mentioned in the 1979
Pinon Affair; Maud Sarr (not very
reliable, but she gave other interesting names as well);
X1 (one of her most violent abusers, together with Baron de
Bonvoisin and the Lippens brothers); X3 (Claimed that Vanden
Boeynants and Charly De Pauw arranged hunts on children.
Named VdB a major player in the underground child torture
network, together with members of the royal family); X4 (1999,
The X-Dossiers, p. 327: "Soon in the investigation the names of
politicians O. and E. are dropped as 'regular customers'. By
that time these had already been pointed out by X1 and X3 as
child killers.". Following the system used by the book
(reversing of the alphabet; checks out in all earlier instances
in the book where "politician E." was also used in the X1
testimony when the real name was Paul Vanden Boeynants), O. is
really L. and E. is really V., indicating that the real names
are Leopold Lippens (mayor) and Paul Vanden Boeynants. There do
not seem to be other possibilities. Only problem: according to
the leaked X-Files summary document, X1 and X2 mentioned Lippens
and Vanden Boeynants, while X3 only mentioned Vanden Boeynants);
Nathalie W. saw Vanden Boeynants at Nihoul's Dolo with a bunch
of women, while X2 saw Vdb's confidant and driver (said to have
been an abuser of X1) there talking to Madani Bouhouche (said to
have been an abuser of X1); close associate of Michel Nihoul in
the 1980s.
Born in Belgium in 1919. Roman Catholic. Studied at
Saint-Michel, a Jesuit college, in the 1930s. Became at some
point a member of Opus Dei, just as his (later) good friend
Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin. Worked in the business of his father.
Already in his early days, VdB was strongly anti-communist and
was a big supporter of Rex, a fascist movement that collaborated
with the nazis during WWII. Flirted with other Nazi and fascist
movements, which brought him in conflict with his father. Joined
the PSC in 1948-1949. Founded the Comite for the Revival of the
PSC in 1949. Member of Parliament for the Parti Social Chrétien
(PSC) 1949-1979. Member of the Commission of Economic Affairs
and Middle-class of Parliament since 1949. Member of the
Commission of Finance of Parliament since 1950. Had begun a
Red-scare campaign in the late 1940s and early 1950s, mirroring
the one of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the US. In 1950, during
the debates whether or not King Leopold III should remain King
of Belgium, Vanden Boeynants made it clear he was a staunch
monarchist and supporter of Leopold III. However, Leopold III
abdicated in favor of his son Baudouin in 1951 over the
controversy that he remained in his country during WWII and
visited Hitler in Germany. His second wife was Liliane de Rethy,
who has been mentioned by X2 and possible others as being
involved in child abuse and murders. During the inauguration of
King Baudouin in 1951, someone screamed "Vive la République,"
which is usually attributed to communist party chairman Julien
Lahaut (might have been someone sitting next to him), a long
time and very popular politician. VdB went berserk and had to be
stopped from physically attacking the communist party at the
gathering. A week later, Lahaut was shot in front of his home by
two unknown persons. Later on it became known that one of the
assassins, "Adolphe", was part of the Belgian Stay-Behind
network. Vanden Boeynants became a big supporter of NATO and
European integration. Founded Mouvement des Independants et des
Cadres (MIC) in 1955, which was meant to neutralize the labor
union wing of the PSC. Minister of the Middle-Classes 1958-1961.
Gave his good friend Aldo Vastapane a monopoly on tobacco-free
stores at the new airport of Zaventem during this time. Asked
Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin to realign the PSC during this time.
X3 has claimed that Vanden Boeynants was already involved in
hideous child sacrifice during this time, together with members
of the royal family and Charly De Pauw. Vanden Boeynants once
said: "The worst moment during my career was the period of
the strikes '60-'61. Then I thought we had come to the end of
normal political history and that we had entered back into
adventure." These strikes were not supported by the labor
unions. Chairman of the PSC 1961-1966. Belgian Prime Minister
1966-1968. Appointed the honorary title of Minister of State in
1969. One of the most prominent members of the World Trade
Center Club of Belgium in Brussels, and handed the contract to
build this business complex mainly to Charly De Pauw and Ado
Blaton. One of the primary founders of the aristocratic and
fascist Cercle des Nations in 1969, together with Baron de
Bonvoisin and Paul Vankerkhoven (close
associate of Otto von Habsburg; CEPIC; founded the Belgian
branch of the WACL). Jean Violet
(connected to the Synarchist Movement of Empire through the
fascist CSAR; Opus Dei; French intelligence; close associate of
Otto von Habsburg; founder of the international private
intelligence group Le Cercle, which was visited by CIA directors
and other virulent anti-communist US covert warfare experts)
became one of the few French members of Cercle des Nations.
Involved with the fascist Nouvel Europe Magazine (NEM), which
was founded in 1971 and funded by Baron de Bonvoisin. Around
this magazine a bunch of fascist NEM-Clubs were set up, starting
in 1972, which began preparing a coup. Together with Baron de
Bonvoisin, Vanden Boeynants was a key founder of CEPIC in 1972,
which was a continuation of Mouvement des Independants et des
Cadres (MIC), founded in 1955 by Vanden Boeynants. It had the
same purpose of neutralizing the PSC's pro-labour aspects and
was highly fascist. Belgian Minister of Defense 1972-1978. With
Baron de Bonvoisin involved in the aborted 1973 coup. In 1979,
VdB's name was linked to Fortunato Israel, the mistress of Roger
Boas who headed a European-wide prostitution network. May 16,
1997, Tony Van Parys, head of the Gang Commission, to De
Standaard about the connections of Fortunato Israel and her
follow-up Lydia Montaricourt: "Among their contacts were
very highly placed persons: the commandant of the gendarmerie
lieutenant-general Fernand Beaurir, arms dealer Roger Boas, and
through the latter Paul Vanden Boeynants." Vanden Boeynants
and General Leon Fernand Francois (invited
by the US Army's CID in 1969; educated by the DEA; received by
President Nixon; secretary of the International Drug Enforcement
Association; always present at the border when a new large
shipment of marijuana and cocaine of VdB's company was smuggled
into Belgium; member Group G, Belgium's fascist fifth column)
largely created the National Bureau for Drugs (NBD) of the
Gendarmerie in the 1972-1975 period. The CIA provided training
for the NBD and delivered many, often questionable, informants.
In return General Francois would give the CIA chief in Belgium
intelligence about leftists and other dissident groups. General
Fernand Beaurir, accused of pedophilia by different sources,
became head of the NBD in 1978. In 1979, a BOB officer began
reporting on corruption in the NBD and how top level officers
were involved in the drug trade themselves. General Francois,
for example, was always present at the border when a new large
shipment of marijuana and cocaine of Vanden Boeynants' company
Boucheries Ghysels was smuggled into Belgium. That these drug
transports were going on was already known for three years, but
they were never intercepted. General Francois was arrested in
January 1980 and a large public investigation into the NBD
began. While interrogating Francois and his NBD associates, two
chief investigators, Major Herman Vernaillen and BOB adjutant
Guy Goffinon, were told how they couldn't touch their suspects
because they were protected by prime minister Paul Vanden
Boeynants and Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin, both members of the
fascist CEPIC and Cercle des Nations organizations. On top of
that, General Beaurir, a Nazi-sympathizing buddy of Vanden
Boeynants, and other senior Gendarme officers began sabotaging
the investigation. The investigators did not back down, and
Goffinon even advised that Vanden Boeynants be arrested on
charges of drug trade. On October 12, 1981 there was a failed
assassination attempt on Goffinon, followed on October 26 by a
failed attempt on Vernaillen (he and his wife were badly shot
up. His wife ended up being 40% paralyzed). It soon turned out
that pilot and DEA agent Jean-Francois Buslik, a long time
friend of Madani Bouhouche and also a friend of DEA narcotics
specialist Frank Eaton (both top players in Belgium's
NATO-sponsored fascist fifth column), had manufactured the
timing mechanism of the explosive. Bombs with similar unusual
timing mechanisms were later found in a storage space located in
the same street where Paul Latinus and Martial Leukeu lived
(other top players in Belgium's NATO-sponsored fascist fifth
column, financed by CEPIC). Vanden Boeynants, Buslik and
Bouhouche were (also) tied to the assassination attempt on
Vernaillen. Founded the Public Information Office (PIO) in 1974,
a fascist "personal" Military Intelligence group that spied on
journalists that had a negative attitude towards the Vanden
Boeynants gang. It also infiltrated many right-wing
organizations and local templar orders to push for
pro-military-industrial complex policies. De Bonvoisin and
Vanden Boeynants made sure that major Jean Bougerol
(SDRA Military Intelligence officer;
crucial figure in the aborted 1973 coup; became head of PIO in
1974 with the blessing of Paul Vanden Boeynants and Baron de
Bonvoisin; gave orders to Francis Dossogne, head of Front de la
Jeunesse and Group G, and an employee of de Bonvoisin; traveled
with CEPIC director Bernard Mercier in 1975 to Spain to attend
the funeral of Franco; editor in chief of INFOREP 1976-1978, an
anti-communist propaganda magazine aimed at party leaders; spoke
at NEM-Clubs; member of the Confrerie des Hospitaliers de
Notre-Dame d'Aulne, together with co-PIO agent Commandant Claude
Dery) became head of PIO, and both men cold regularly be
found at PIO headquarters. Lieutenant-general Roman, chief of
staff of the Belgian Army, was Bougerol's superior and another
political ally of de Bonvoisin and Vanden Boeynants. Bougerol
gave orders to Francis Dossogne (paid
"advisor" to Baron de Bonvoisin; took his orders from Army
Intelligence major Jean Bougerol, head of PIO and personally
picked by Vanden Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin; another
"private detective"; director of CIDEP, publisher of the fascist
NEM magazine; good friend Jean Bultot, who is closely tied to
the Gang of Nijvel; gave permission to Paul Latinus in '78-'79
to reorganize the Brussels department of Front de la Jeunesse;
according to Martial Lekeu, Dossogne, Latinus and DEA agent
Frank Eaton were leaders of Group G, a Nazi-inspired
NATO-sanctioned parallel organization within the Gendarmerie),
an employee of de Bonvoisin's PDG and leader of the fascist
Front de la Jeunesse and Group G. After the death of CEPIC in
1981, PIO was reorganized into the possibly even more
influential European Institute of Management (EIM). Col. Rene
Mayerus, a good friend of Major Jean Bougerol (the protege of de
Bonvoisin and Vanden Boeynants and accused by X1 of being
involved in the child abuse network) became
administrative-director of EIM. Within 6 months of its founding,
the new head of EIM became Douglas MacArthur II
(born in 1909; Episcopalian; nephew of the
famous general; member Yale Wolf's head society; ambassador to
Paris 1938-1940; ambassador to the Fascist Vichy government
1940-1942; held in Nazi internment for 16 months after Petain
broke off relations with the US in 1942; member General
Eisenhower's SHAEF staff in 1944; ambassador to Italy 1944-1948;
became chief of the State Department's Division of European
Affairs in 1949; political advisor to SHAPE headquarters in
France 1951-1952; counselor US Department State in Washington
1953-1957; member CFR from the 1950s to the late 1980s;
ambassador to Japan in Tokyo 1957-1961; ambassador to Brussels
1961-1965; assistant secretary of state and head of the State
Department's Bureau of Congressional Relations 1965-1967;
ambassador to Austria 1967-1969; ambassador to Iran during the
Shah's reign 1969-1972 (retired after evading a kidnapping
attempt); independent international affairs consultant in
Washington 1972-1997; director Banque Bruxelles Lambert; since
1981, chair of the European Institute of Management (EIM), a
privatized fascist army intelligence group which tried to
undermine the Belgian democratic process and appears to have
been at the center of a child abuse, torture and murder ring;
member of the editorial advisory board of The Washington Times
since Sun Myung Moon founded it in 1982; chaired Moon's World
Media Conference in Tokyo in the mid-1980s; openly supported the
Women's Federation for World Peace when Moon founded it in 1987;
founding chair of Sun Myung Moon-funded Panda Motor Corp in
China since 1988, a company that went bankrupt within a few
years (October 16, 1989, Daily Herald, 'Moon-backed Panda car
drives into skepticism of auto industry'); his uncle Douglas
MacArthur saved Moon during the invasion of Korea; big supporter
of the UN's Temple of Understanding; died in 1997).
Minister of Brussels Affairs 1974-1978. A 1976 report from BOB
officer Roger Tratsaert stated that there was a silent right
wing coup in preparation in Belgium, which was centered on
Nouvelle Europe Magazine and (ex-) officers from the military.
Jean Bougerol, sponsored by lieutenant-general Roman, was a
coordinating figure in this plot (including the aborted 1973
coup), just as Count Arnould de Briey, a public official who was
married to co-Bilderberg founder Paul van Zeeland's daughter.
Chairman of CEPIC 1977-1979 with de Bonvoisin being treasurer.
In May 1989, Lt.-Col. Herman Vernaillen of the Gendarmerie
supplied Andre Bourgeois, head of an investigating committee,
with names of people who back in 1980 were trying to destabilize
the Belgium state. This was done in order to bring in a more
hard-right government. The names given by Vernaillen included
Paul Vanden Boeynants, Jose Desmarets
(former PSC vice premier) Jean Militis
(special forces Col.; CEPIC; PRL member of
parliament), Lt.-Gen. Vivario (Army
chief of staff) prosecutor Raymond Charles and General
Beaurir. Vernaillen had been given these names in 1980 by Leon
Finne, a former CEPIC member and banker who used to be involved
in illegal arms sales. Coincidentally, Finne was assassinated by
the Gang of Nijvel on September 27, 1985. On November 29, 1989,
adjutant Guy Dussart of the BOB in Waverse testified in a closed
session of the parliamentary investigating committee that he was
approached in December 1985 - March 1986 by two senior high
nobility figures who belonged to Opus Dei. They explained to him
that at least 9 important members of Opus Dei in addition to
several officers and generals of the Gendarmerie and the army
were working to destabilize the country and as a result transfer
all power to the king. Dussart mentioned the same names as
Lieutenant-Colonel Vernaillen, including General Beaurir and
Paul Vanden Boeynants (both belonged to Opus Dei). Dussart also
said that the aborted 1973 coup, named "l'Ordre Blue", involved
some of the same players as the coup prepared in the 1980s.
There also was a report that the conspirators had organized
several meetings at Castle Dongelberg, owned by Opus Dei. X2
later claimed that children had been abused at Dongelberg, while
Nathalie W. also mentioned the castle in her testimony. Vanden
Boeynants was again Belgian Prime Minister 1978-1979. Chairman
of the PSC 1979-1981. In 1979, in the Pinon Affair which never
became an affair, Vanden Boeynants was named as a person who
attended parties at which underaged girls were abused. Others
named were General Beaurir, Guy Mathot, Ado Blaton and Prince
Albert (later King Albert II). Jacques Jonet, a fascist lawyer
who used to be a political secretary to Otto von Habsburg and
reportedly was close to Vanden Boeynants, was later accused of
having warned an editor of Pour (Magazine) not to publish
details about the affair. A week later members of Front de la
Jeunesse burnt down the headquarters of Pour. Through prominent
CEPIC member and Annie Bouty law partner Philippe Deleuze,
Nihoul first met Vanden Boeynants in November 1981 at PSC
headquarters in Brussels. He discussed with Vanden Boeynants an
aspect of the Centre Medical de l'Est (CME) affair. PV 42.665,
October 14, 1996 (testimony of Guy Einsweiller or Eschweiler):
"Remembers Nihoul (fish trade near the PAVAN transport
enterprise where he works. 108/11O Avenue du Port 1000,
Brussels). During a deal, he saw Dumont drinking a glass with
Nihoul. Sometimes saw Nihoul at the restaurant Mayflower in
Koekelberg... declared to have regularly seen Dumont and Vanden
Boeynants in the private area of the fish and crustacean
enterprise that he exploited. [early 1990s]" According to
Jozef De Poorter, head of construction firm VDK, which he took
over from Arthur Vande Kerkhove after this person died, Vande
Kerkhove was a great fan of orgies, which he attended with Paul
Vanden Boeynants and Nihoul (T.3518/96, February 3, 2000). 1999,
Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulte and Douglas De Coninck,
'De X-dossiers' p. 116-118: "Edouard Nihoul, the Brussels
PRL-politician and royal court supplier of cake and pastry, has
similar experiences. The confectioner shouts from the rooftops
in late 1996 that he is not family, but the by Michel Nihoul
himself spread rumor seems inextinguishable... Edouard Nihoul,
the unfortunate confectioner, at the time was chairman of the
CEPIC in Brussels. 'Michel Nihoul helped during election
campaigns. At a certain moment, Vanden Boeynants couldn't stand
him anymore. I've read that he now denies to ever have had
something to do with Vanden Boeynants. I have to laugh about
that.'" Together with other directors of CEPIC, VdB wrote
letters of recommendation for Paul Latinus
(Nazi; recruited by the DIA in 1967, age 17; trained by NATO;
reserve lieutenant with the Air Force; paid informant of State
Security; recruited as an intelligence agent by PIO in 1977;
recommended everywhere by the CEPIC leadership; member Front de
la Jeunesse; founder Westland New Post (WNP) in 1981; named as
one of the leaders of Group G; suicided in 1984). Founded
the Mediterranean Meat Company around 1981, located in Malta on
an abandoned British military airport. It shared offices and
accountants with ASCO-Malta, the aerospace/arms company of his
friend Roger Boas. X1 claimed she had regularly been taken to a
snuff studio located in the factory of ASCO-Belgium. Vanden
Boeynants was among those she had seen there. Boas had access to
an international network of prostitutes through Fortunato
Israel, his mistress and employee. He used this network to tempt
and reward customers and intermediaries with, among them Vanden
Boeynants. Back in the days when Vanden Boeynants was prime- and
defense minister, foreign arms corporations knew they had to
include ASCO in every single contract if they wanted to work
with the Belgians. Adnan Khashoggi, who had an office in
Brussels for his firm Triad, was a close associate of Vanden
Boeynants. CEPIC disbanded in 1981, soon after their connections
to the NEM-clubs and Front de la Jeunesse were found out about.
Excerpts of the 1981 confidential State Security memo
(translated from Dutch): "It was determined that certain
members of the board of the C.E.P.I.C. (x) in the past have lent
their cooperated to the publication and the editorial office of
NEM, were part of the NEM-clubs of the F.J. [Front de la
Jeunesse] and maintained contact with board members or
supporters of the two latter mentioned groups. Amongst others,
it concerns: Jean Breydel, secretary-general of the C.E.P.I.C.,
Benoit de Bonvoisin, treasurer of the C.E.P.I.C., Joseph (Jo)
Gerard, Paul Van Kerkhoven, Joseph Franz and Bernard Mercier.
The board, the administration and the editorial office of the
NEM, which has been published under this name since 1971 by the
"Compagnie Internationale des Editions Populaires" (C.I.D.E.P.),
is located at no. 5 of the Dekenstraat in Brussels...
Furthermore, at this address was located the secretariat of the
1972 founded NEM-clubs, as well, until 1978, the seat of F.J....
The seat of C.E.P.I.C. is located at no. 39 of the
Belliardstraat in Brussels. This building also contains the
Belliard auditorium, the seat of "Mouvement d'Action pour
l'Unite Europeenne" (xx), just as the offices of the "Societe de
Promotion et de la Distribution Generale" (P.D.G.), supervised,
through a go-between, by Benoit de Bonvoisin... The NEM is
supported by Benoit de Bonvoisin, who pays the rent of the in
the Dekensstraat located offices and hires the editor in chief
as an advisor... Francis Dossogne, head of the F.J., was paid in
the same way, until he left the NEM. The partnership P.D.G., and
consequently de Bonvoisin, through a go-between finances the
magazine "INFOREP" which claims to be a "daily paper for party
leaders", but in reality is a bi-language magazine with strong
anti-communist leanings. From 1976 to 1978 its editor in chief
was Major Jean Bougerol, a higher career officer working for the
headquarters of the domestic armed forces. Jean Bougerol has
spoken at lectures organized by the NEM-clubs... This officer,
who keeps in close contact with Bernard Mercier, board member of
the C.E.P.I.C., was mentioned as one of the organizers of the
transport from Antwerp to the seat of the C.E.P.I.C. in Brussels
of a wanted neo-nazi terrorist. This person had to be taken by
Bernard Mercier to a domain in the Ardennes belonging to de
Bonvoisin and subsequently to France. The German was intercepted
by State Security during the trip from Antwerp to Brussels...
According to unverifiable sources the F.J. would have approached
several foreign governments and opposition-movements for
financial support." In the mid-1980s, former BOB officers
Madani Bouhouche and Robert "Bob" Beyer were in the possession
of a whole database of sensitive info on prominent politicians.
They had stolen this before leaving the BOB in 1983 and tried to
sell the information to two prominent politicians: Paul Vanden
Boeynants (couldn't remember this fact. Only remembered he had
declined an offer of Bouhouche to steal incriminating files
against his person) and Minister of Justice Philippe Moureaux
(accused by The Sprout of having been
present at the murder of Julie and Melissa, together with
Cardinal Danneels) (confirmed it had been offered to him
and that he declined the offer). February 27, 1988, De Morgen,
Francois Raes (BOB officer and whistleblower who exposed NBD
highest level drug dealing) commentary: "Isn't that story of
these two ministers strange? They are contacted to buy secret
information and they don't inform a single police service. At
the very least that's a lack of civil goodwill." In 1986,
Vanden Boeynants was convicted for more than 100 counts of tax
evasion and forgery of documents from 1967 to 1982 in which he
personally made $4.4 million. He was sentenced to a suspended
three-year jail term and a fine of $13,600. Kidnapped by the
"Socialist Revolutionary Brigade" from mid-January to
mid-February 1989, and released after paying a ransom. It later
turned out that the gang of Patrick Haemers was behind the
kidnapping. February 12, 1989, Houston Chronicle, 'Mystery
surrounds Belgium abduction': "One of Belgium's most popular
politicians, two-time Prime Minister Paul Vanden Boeynants, was
kidnapped Jan. 14 from his apartment building by a group calling
itself the Socialist Revolutionary Brigade. Or maybe not. "Let's
put it this way," said a non-European diplomat based here, "We
have strong doubts that things happened the way they said." One
reason for the skepticism is that Vanden Boeynants, 69, was
convicted of tax evasion two years ago by a judge who called him
an "inveterate cheat.'' He was being investigated once again,
this time for receiving kickbacks between 1972-79 while he was
Belgium's defense minister... Even after his conviction, Van
Boeynants received more votes than anyone else in recent city
elections and was in line to become mayor of Brussels. He
reluctantly turned the job down under pressure from Prime
Minister Wilfried Martens, who is said to have balked at the
idea of a convicted man - he received a three-year suspended
sentence - being chief executive of the city."... Vanden
Boeynants is an honest man, said his former aide in the ministry
of defense, retired Gen. Jules Everaert." Everaert
(chairman of Pro Belgica
1989-1993; one of his two predecessors here was
Prince Francois de Merode, from 1975-1983)
was a close friend and tennis partner of Vanden Boeynants. March
25, 1989, Washington Post, 'Belgians arrest kidnapping suspect':
"The lawyer of an alleged gang leader being hunted for the
kidnapping of a former Belgian prime minister has been arrested
on suspicion of masterminding the abduction, the prosecutor's
office said today Michel Vander Elst, 41, was placed under
arrest after nine hours of questioning on suspicion of being
"the author, coauthor or an accomplice in the kidnap" of Paul
Vanden Boeynants, a spokesman said. Other accusations included
extortion and forgery... Vander Elst represents Patrick Haemers,
36, the alleged leader of a gang being sought by police for a
string of unsolved violent crimes. Vanden Boeynants was snatched
in the garage of his Brussels home Jan. 14 and released a month
later after a ransom payment of up to $2.5 million. The
spokesman charged that Vander Elst had seen some of the
suspected kidnapers after they had rented a villa in the
northern French resort of Le Touquet, where Vanden Boeynants was
held for a month. He said the lawyer also had received calls
from public booths in Le Touquet." Vander Elst has been
named by X1 as one of her abusers and torturers, alongside
Michel Nihoul and Paul Vanden Boeynants. In 1996, Vander Elst
provided a (false) alibi for Nihoul while this person was
investigated for having been seen at the location where Laetitia
was kidnapped by Dutroux. Patrick Haemers and his father were
involved with people like Nihoul and members of the fascist
underground. Haemers committed suicide in jail in May 1993,
several days after his sidekicks in the Vanden Boeynants
kidnapping escaped from jail (and were caught again). Vanden
Boeynants did a lot of his shady business transactions through
Caisse Privee Banque of the very noble d'Ursel family
(intermarried with de Bonvoisin and accused by X1 of serious
child abuse). The Haemers gang was also involved with this bank
through one of the bank's directors, Jean Cruysmans, who
regularly visited CEPIC. Vanden Boeynants burnt his private
archives in 1995. Honored by the Order of Leopold II, the Order
of St. Michael and St. George, the Order of Orange Nassau, the
Vatican's Order of St. Sylvester, and many others. On August 20,
1997, Commandant Duterme of the BOB internally decided to sack
De Baets and his team, who had been working with X1, one of the
witnesses that accused Vanden Boeynants of having raped and
tortured her. The weekly magazine Pan, headed by Paul Vanden
Boeynants, joyously reported on August 21 that De Baets and his
team had been removed from Neufchateau. Interestingly, the
investigators themselves were only told about their removal on
August 25, by Col. Brabant, who had recently sanctioned a media
campaign against Nathalie W. by the same re-readers. Nathalie W.
claimed to have seen Vanden Boeynants at the Dolo, tying him to
Nihoul's favorite club. Other research turned up that Nihoul
first met Vanden Boeynants in November 1981 at PSC headquarters
in Brussels. He discussed with Vanden Boeynants an aspect of the
Centre Medical de l'Est (CME) affair. They kept in touch over
the years. 1999, Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulte and
Douglas De Coninck, 'De X-dossiers' p. 116-118: "Edouard
Nihoul, the Brussels PRL-politician and royal court supplier of
cake and pastry, has similar experiences. The confectioner
shouts from the rooftops in late 1996 that he is not family, but
the by Michel Nihoul himself spread rumor seems
inextinguishable... Edouard Nihoul, the unfortunate
confectioner, at the time was chairman of the CEPIC in Brussels.
'Michel Nihoul helped during election campaigns. At a certain
moment, Vanden Boeynants couldn't stand him anymore. I've read
that he now denies to ever have had something to do with Vanden
Boeynants. I have to laugh about that.'" PV 42.665, October
14, 1996 (testimony of Guy Einsweiller or Eschweiler):
"Remembers Nihoul (fish trade near the PAVAN transport
enterprise where he works. 108/11O Avenue du Port 1000,
Brussels). During a deal, he saw Dumont drinking a glass with
Nihoul. Sometimes saw Nihoul at the restaurant Mayflower in
Koekelberg... declared to have regularly seen Dumont and Vanden
Boeynants in the private area of the fish and crustacean
enterprise that he exploited. [early 1990s]" According to
Jozef De Poorter, head of construction firm VDK, which he took
over from Arthur Vande Kerkhove after this person died, Vande
Kerkhove was a great fan of orgies, which he attended with Paul
Vanden Boeynants and Nihoul (T.3518/96, February 3, 2000).
Vanden Boeynants' old CEPIC friend Baron de Bonvoisin (also
accused of child abuse) began a slander campaign against De
Baets around the time that his team was removed from
Neufchateau. |
| Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin
|
b. 1939
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Source(s): X1 (One of her most violent
abusers, together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and the Lippens
brothers; central person in the child hunts); X2 (Present at sex
parties in a castle near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, together
with Jean-Paul Dumont and many others; present at smaller child
abuse parties where girls were tortured in Paul Bourlee's
residence at Faulx-Les-Tombes (very close to the castle of de
Bonvoisin); went to Le Mirano where he was involved in child
abuse parties where cocaine was distributed; went hunting with a
number of others during which underaged girls were raped and
abused).
Added in 2008: Declaration of an anonymous witness to the
Belgian Judiciary, October 12, 199x, (copy for Neufchateau
cell): "Event: Witness her husband, who has passed away,
received an invitation for a party at a castle in the
neighborhood of ATH. Former minister DESCHAMPS [sic] and Baron
de BONVOISIN were present there. At a certain point children of
approximately 10 years of age were brought in. These were then
abused by the guests present. The husband of the witness didn’t
know this would happen and left the place because he didn’t want
to participate in it … Date of the event: About 4 years ago.";
Declaration of Dany Lefrant to the Belgian Judiciary, October
13, 199x, (copy for Neufchateau cell): "Pink Ballets [normally
refers to underaged children being present] with STIERS Steeve,
VAN DEN BROECK Franck, the Baron Bonvoisin, SPITAELS Guy, Frans
Reyneers, bar le cancan [the bar where Elio Di Rupo, according
to Cancan's owners, went to pick up students]. This happened
more or less 7 years ago."; Declaration of Danielle Lagae to the
Belgian Judiciary, October 16, 199x, (copy for Neufchateau
cell): "Victim of sexual abuse (contacts) at the age of - 5, by
Jean Jacques ROLAND... - 12, by Jean Marie HUCHET... [mentions
several names, including "Mr. DEBONVOISIN"]... the father knew
and regularly met these people... Happened in the 1970s.";
In the second half of the 16th century, Jehan de Bonvoisin
received land from his father, a descendant of an ancient House
of landed gentry. From the outset of the 17th century, the
family developed the textile industry in the region of Verviers,
where its members also held positions in public office.
Baron Pierre de Bonvoisin (1903-1982) was the father of
Benoît. Pierre was an Economics professor at the University of
Louvain. Married Elizabeth Galopin, a granddaughter of Alexandre
Galopin (1879-1944). Before and during WWII, Galopin was head of
Union Minière in Congo and Société Générale de Belgique. King
Leopold III had chosen Galopin to reorganize the Belgian economy
after the German invasion. The official story goes that several
months before the allies invaded Normandy, Galopin gained access
to a list of industrialists who worked with the Nazis. On
February 28, 1944, he was assassinated. Pierre was a director of
Société Générale de Belgique from 1951 to 1962. In 1954, Pierre
de Bonvoisin attended the first Bilderberg Conference along with
Paul van Zeeland (son-in-law has been named a key plotter in the
aborted 1973 fascist coup in Belgium, together with an agent of
Vanden Boeynants and Benoit de Bonvoisin, Army Major Jean
Bougerol). He attended several other Bilderberg conferences.
Chairman of the Banque du Congo Belge. President of the Belgian
International Chamber of Commerce. Co-founder of l'Institut
International d'Etudes Bancaires (IIEB), which is part of IMF
and still meeting today. Director of Companhia de Diamantes de
Angola (Diamang), which had a monopoly on the diamond supply of
Angola. Others on the board of Diamang were Harry Oppenheimer of
Anglo-American and other people from De Beers. Chairman of the
Belgian League of Multiple Sclerosis. One of the counsellors of
King Baudouin.
Benoit was born in 1939. Graduated in philosophy from the
University of Louvain. Benoit's sister Marie-Cecile married
Count Herve d'Ursel (b. 1930) in 1959. Benoit's other sister
Marie Francoise de Bonvoisin (b. 1949) married Prince Bernard de
Merode (b. 1949) in 1974 and became a princess. The d'Ursel
(especially another branch) and de Merode families are among the
most noble families in Belgium. Both families, not unlike de
Bonvoisin himself, have been implicated in child abuse networks,
just as a large number of their associates. Bernard de Merode
works for a firm these days which is headed by two senior
retired MI5 officials. Benoit was called upon by the Belgian
Minister for the Middle Classes, Paul Vanden Boeynants, in the
early 1960s, to realign the Social Christian Party (PSC).
Involved with the World Anti-Communist League (WACL). Named as a
member of Opus Dei, just as Paul Vanden Boeynants. One of the
primary founders of the aristocratic and fascist Cercle des
Nations in 1969, together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and Paul
Vankerkhoven (close associate of Otto von
Habsburg; CEPIC; founded the Belgian branch of the WACL).
Jean Violet (connected to the Synarchist
Movement of Empire through the fascist CSAR; Opus Dei; French
intelligence; close associate of Otto von Habsburg; founder of
the international private intelligence group Le Cercle, which
was visited by CIA directors and other virulent anti-communist
US covert warfare experts) became one of the few French
members of Cercle des Nations. Financed the fascist Nouvel
Europe Magazine (NEM), which was founded in 1971 and counted the
involvement of Paul Vanden Boeynants. Around this magazine a
bunch of fascist NEM-Clubs were set up, starting in 1972, which
began preparing a coup. Together with Paul Vanden Boeynants,
Baron de Bonvoisin was a key founder of CEPIC in 1972, which was
a continuation of Mouvement des Independants et des Cadres
(MIC), founded in 1955 by Vanden Boeynants. It had the same
purpose of neutralizing the PSC's pro-labour aspects and was
highly fascist. Political advisor to Paul Vanden Boeynants in
the 1970s. With Paul Vanden Boeynants involved in the aborted
1973 coup. Set up the fascist Parti des Forces Nouvelles in the
1974-1975 period, together with Emile Lecerf and first chairman
Albert Lambert. It became the political front of his private
militia Front de la Jeunesse, which was founded in the same
period. The first congress of Forces Nouvelles was held at the
CEPIC headquarters on November 23, 1975. Around the same time
Lecerf organized a meeting at the castle of Baron de Bonvoisin
in which a number of fascist leaders from Europe were brought
together. Represented were the MSI from Italy, the French branch
of Parti des Forces Nouvelles, the National Front from Britain
and Fuerza Nueva from Spain. Francis Dossogne, head of Front de
la Jeunesses by this time, also attended. Arranged a meeting of
European Nazis and other fascists in his castle in late 1975.
Treasurer of CEPIC since 1976. Had his own company, Societe de
Promotion & Distribution Generales NV (PDG), which shared the
same building with CEPIC headquarters (actually two buildings,
but a corridor was built between them). The main investors in
PDG were Charly De Pauw, Ado Blaton, and other businessmen
involved in building the World Trade Center and Parc Savoy in
Brussels. In return for their investments PDG created fake
invoices for them. These people, together with King Albert II
(then Prince), Fortunato Israel (ran a
European-wide prostitution ring; mistress of Roger Boas),
and Roger Boas (owner of arms
manufacturer/aerospace company ASCO, which allegedly harbored a
child torture and abuse studio), were also involved in
the Eurosystem Hospitalier deal in Saudi-Arabia, which blew up
in 1979 due the hundreds of millions of dollars used for
briberies and commissions. De Bonvoisin arranged the takeover of
Bâtiments et Ponts, Ado Blaton's company that was primarily
responsible for building Parc Savoy, by the French firm Générale
des Eaux in 1988. Shareholder of Parc Savoy, which is where
Cercle des Nations was located. Benoit was one of the key
persons in financing, through CEPIC and PDG, the fascist Front
de la Jeunesse. Front de la Jeunesse was the private militia of
the in 1974 established Parti des Forces Nouvelles. It was
headed by Francis Dossogne (paid "advisor"
to Baron de Bonvoisin; took his orders from Army Intelligence
major Jean Bougerol, head of PIO and personally picked by Vanden
Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin; another "private detective";
director of CIDEP, publisher of the fascist NEM magazine; good
friend Jean Bultot, who is closely tied to the Gang of Nijvel;
gave permission to Paul Latinus in '78-'79 to reorganize the
Brussels department of Front de la Jeunesse; according to
Martial Lekeu, Dossogne, Latinus and DEA agent Frank Eaton were
leaders of Group G, a Nazi-inspired NATO-sanctioned parallel
organization within the Gendarmerie). Members of Front de
la Jeunesse included Paul Latinus (Nazi;
recruited by the DIA in 1967, age 17; trained by NATO; reserve
lieutenant with the Air Force; paid informant of State Security;
recruited as an intelligence agent by PIO in 1977; recommended
everywhere by the CEPIC leadership; member Front de la Jeunesse;
founder Westland New Post in 1981; recruited as a police
informant by the questionable Georges Marnette; suicided in
1984) and Marcel Barbier (Wackenhut
employee since before 1981; recruited as a guard at European
Institute of Management (EIM) around 1981, the follow-up of the
shady Belgium military-intelligence unit PIO, since 1981 headed
by Douglas MacArthur II; co-founded Westland New Post (WNP) with
Latinus in 1981, and became head of its security section (seen
as Latinus' right-hand); when police searched Barbier's
apartment for unrelated reasons, they found it filled with Nazi
symbols and literature, weapons, papers that allowed him
entrance to the barracks of the general staff of the Army in
Evere, and a whole batch of secret NATO documents; his lawyer at
that point became Vincent vanden Bossche, who represented other
fascists and was a member of Cercle des Nations and Ordre du
Rouvre, was named as someone involved in the cover-up of the
Pinon child abuse affair; convicted in 1987 for a double
WNP-organized murder, in which Barbier had slit the victim's
throats). Front de la Jeunesse had secret paramilitary
training camps in the Ardennes. Among the instructors of the
training camps were Madani Bouhouche (Nazi;
BOB officer until 1983; caught spying on his colleagues; leading
figure in the Practical Shooting Association; friend and
partner-in-crime of such men as Christian Amory, Bob Beyer and
Jean Bultot; went to the Jonathan; convicted criminal and
murderer; member Group G and involved in actions to destabilize
Belgium; member Westland New Post) and Jean-Francis
Calmette (joined the terrorist OAS, which
tried to assassinate de Gaulle and destabilize Algeria; director
of Wackenhut Belgium until 1981 (since 1977 allowed in Belgium;
does dirty black ops for CIA, DEA, etc.; had to leave Belgium in
early 1980s after some of its guards were accused of luring
immigrant children into basements and beating them up), and
recruited Marcel Barbier and Eric
Lammers; set up the Nazi militia 'Nouvelle Sparte'; full-contact
karate teacher and taught this sport to Group Diana of the
Gendarmerie; all round security expert; secretly hired
mercenaries for South-Africa and hired a farm to train them;
together with Christian Amory associated with the mercenary firm
Contact in Brussels; went to the Jonathan; instructor at the
secret fascist training camps of Front de la Jeunesse in the
Ardennes, which were protected by NATO and overseen by DIA-NATO
agent Paul Latinus, another fascist; member of Westland New Post
(WNP), headed by Latinus; head of security of the annual ball of
the PSC in 1980, headed by Paul Vanden Boeynants at the time;
manager of the Brussels sports club BIBKA). Together with
Paul Vanden Boeynants, de Bonvoisin founded the Army's Public
Information Office in 1974, a fascist "personal" Military
Intelligence group that spied on journalists that had a negative
attitude towards the Vanden Boeynants gang. It also infiltrated
many right-wing organizations and local templar orders to push
for pro-military-industrial complex policies. De Bonvoisin and
Vanden Boeynants made sure that major Jean-Marie Bougerol
(SDRA Military Intelligence officer; crucial figure in the
aborted 1973 coup; became head of PIO in 1974 with the blessing
of Paul Vanden Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin; gave orders to
Francis Dossogne, head of Front de la Jeunesse and Group G, and
an employee of de Bonvoisin; traveled with CEPIC director
Bernard Mercier in 1975 to Spain to attend the funeral of
Franco; editor in chief of INFOREP 1976-1978, an anti-communist
propaganda magazine aimed at party leaders; spoke at NEM-Clubs;
member of the Confrerie des Hospitaliers de Notre-Dame d'Aulne,
together with co-PIO agent Commandant Claude Dery) became
head of PIO, and both men cold regularly be found at PIO
headquarters. Lieutenant-general Pierre Roman, chief of staff of
the Belgian Army, was Bougerol's superior and another political
ally of de Bonvoisin and Vanden Boeynants. Bougerol gave orders
to Francis Dossogne, an employee of de Bonvoisin and leader of
the fascist Front de la Jeunesse and the subversive Group G. The
latter was a Nazi-inspired NATO-sanctioned parallel organization
which recruited from the Gendarmerie, although it was headed by
leading members of private groups as Front de la Jeunesse and
WNP. Similar cells were located in the Army, the Universite
Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), the Royal Military School, the Mobile
Legion, the Special Intervention Squadron (Diana Group), the
narcotics section of the BOB and different other branches of the
Gendarmerie. Most members of a particular cell did not know
about the others and Nazi-fascist infiltration could have been
much larger than the estimated 60 recruits. A 1976 report from
BOB officer Roger Tratsaert stated that there was a silent right
wing coup in preparation in Belgium, which was centered on
Nouvelle Europe Magazine and (ex-) officers from the military.
Major Jean Bougerol, sponsored by lieutenant-general Roman, Paul
Vanden Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin, was a coordinating
figure in this plot (including the aborted 1973 coup), just as
Count Arnould de Briey, a public official who was married to
co-Bilderberg founder Paul van Zeeland's daughter. In May 1989,
Lt.-Col. Herman Vernaillen of the Gendarmerie supplied Andre
Bourgeois, head of an investigating committee, with names of
people who back in 1980 were trying to destabilize the Belgium
state. This was done in order to bring in a more hard-right
government. The names given by Vernaillen included Paul Vanden
Boeynants and General Beaurir. Vernaillen had been given these
names in 1980 by Leon Finne, a former CEPIC member and banker
who used to be involved in illegal arms sales. Coincidentally,
Finne was assassinated by the Gang of Nijvel on September 27,
1985. On November 29, 1989, adjutant Guy Dussart of the BOB in
Waverse testified in a closed session of the parliamentary
investigating committee that he was approached in December 1985
- March 1986 by two senior high nobility figures who belonged to
Opus Dei. They explained to him that at least 9 important
members of Opus Dei (which likely included de Bonvoisin) in
addition to several officers and generals of the Gendarmerie and
the army were working to destabilize the country and as a result
transfer all power to the king. Dussart mentioned the same names
as Lieutenant-Colonel Vernaillen, including General Beaurir and
Paul Vanden Boeynants (both belonged to Opus Dei). Dussart also
said that the aborted 1973 coup, named "l'Ordre Blue", involved
some of the same players as the coup prepared in the 1980s.
There also was a report that the conspirators had organized
several meetings at Castle Dongelberg, owned by Opus Dei. X2
later claimed that children had been abused at Dongelberg, while
Nathalie W. also mentioned the castle in her testimony. CEPIC
disbanded in 1981, soon after their connections to the NEM-clubs
and Front de la Jeunesse were found out about. Excerpts of the
1981 confidential State Security memo (translated from Dutch):
"It was determined that certain members of the board of the
C.E.P.I.C. (x) in the past have lent their cooperated to the
publication and the editorial office of NEM, were part of the
NEM-clubs of the F.J. [Front de la Jeunesse] and maintained
contact with board members or supporters of the two latter
mentioned groups. Amongst others, it concerns: Jean Breydel,
secretary-general of the C.E.P.I.C., Benoit de Bonvoisin,
treasurer of the C.E.P.I.C., Joseph (Jo) Gerard, Paul Van
Kerkhoven, Joseph Franz and Bernard Mercier. The board, the
administration and the editorial office of the NEM, which has
been published under this name since 1971 by the "Compagnie
Internationale des Editions Populaires" (C.I.D.E.P.), is located
at no. 5 of the Dekenstraat in Brussels... Furthermore, at this
address was located the secretariat of the 1972 founded
NEM-clubs, as well, until 1978, the seat of F.J.... The seat of
C.E.P.I.C. is located at no. 39 of the Belliardstraat in
Brussels. This building also contains the Belliard auditorium,
the seat of "Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite Europeenne" (xx),
just as the offices of the "Societe de Promotion et de la
Distribution Generale" (P.D.G.), supervised, through a
go-between, by Benoit de Bonvoisin... The NEM is supported by
Benoit de Bonvoisin, who pays the rent of the in the
Dekensstraat located offices and hires the editor in chief as an
advisor... Francis Dossogne, head of the F.J., was paid in the
same way, until he left the NEM. The partnership P.D.G., and
consequently de Bonvoisin, through a go-between finances the
magazine "INFOREP" which claims to be a "daily paper for party
leaders", but in reality is a bi-language magazine with strong
anti-communist leanings. From 1976 to 1978 its editor in chief
was Major Jean Bougerol, a higher career officer working for the
headquarters of the domestic armed forces. Jean Bougerol has
spoken at lectures organized by the NEM-clubs... This officer,
who keeps in close contact with Bernard Mercier, board member of
the C.E.P.I.C., was mentioned as one of the organizers of the
transport from Antwerp to the seat of the C.E.P.I.C. in Brussels
of a wanted neo-nazi terrorist. This person had to be taken by
Bernard Mercier to a domain in the Ardennes belonging to de
Bonvoisin and subsequently to France. The German was intercepted
by State Security during the trip from Antwerp to Brussels...
According to unverifiable sources the F.J. would have approached
several foreign governments and opposition-movements for
financial support." Since Albert Raes, head of State
Security, was largely responsible for the release of this memo,
he was immediately attacked by de Bonvoisin and associates, a
trend that would continue over the decades. On February 6, 1995,
Raes explained at the VTM-broadcast 'Telefacts': "...
according to some it [his persecution] might have something to
do with arms trade, arms shipping, arms theft, arms smuggling,
and the whole mess that can be found around weapons. [confirms
he is referring to VdB and Baron Benoît de Bonvoisin]" On
www.baronbenoitdebonvoisin.com Benoit is supposed to give us his
personal history. Instead, he uses two thirds of his own
biography to bash his opponents. He does, however, give some
interesting insights: "Besides his political role within the
CEPIC, Benoît de Bonvoisin exerted an influence in Zaïre [Congo;
Belgian colony until 1960], firstly in the struggle against
communism and secondly attempting to curb corruption, with
friends from the American administration. Van den Boeynants
assigned General Roman and Benoît on a number of missions in
order to counteract the Soviet influence in Belgium... Through a
number of people with whom he was in touch in the United States
and France, B. de B felt it necessary to try and get the Belgian
intelligence services under democratic control. He considered it
urgent, since this was the only secret service to escape
control... [bashes Albert Raes, head of Belgian intelligence]
Largely because of B. de B, Raes was forced to resign in 1990...
B. de Bonvoisin was highly regarded by the head of the French
secret services, Alexandre de Marenches, but the latter had no
esteem for Albert Raes... [bashes Albert Raes a bit more]... he
[Raes] tried to associate B. de B with the extreme right, a
trick often used by the Soviet secret services." On the
same page: "Professor Lode Van Outrive concluded that : "
Several times the Americans tried to convince Raes to
concentrate first and foremost on the Eastern block countries
whereas he seemed more interested in targeting extreme right
wing movements. This clearly bothered the Americans who got him
to resign."" In 2003, Benoit and his brother Pierre were
prosecuted by the Belgian authorities for having faked so called
KGB documents. Benoit used these documents in 1995 to prove
there was a vast left wing conspiracy aimed at discrediting him,
which included many members of government. After the death of
CEPIC in 1981, PIO was reorganized into the possibly even more
influential European Institute of Management (EIM). Col. Rene
Mayerus, a good friend of Major Jean Bougerol (the protege of de
Bonvoisin and Vanden Boeynants and accused by X1 of being
involved in the child abuse network) became
administrative-director of EIM. Within 6 months of its founding,
the new head of EIM became Douglas MacArthur II
(born in 1909; Episcopalian; nephew of the
famous general; ambassador to Paris 1938-1940; ambassador to the
Fascist Vichy government 1940-1942; held in Nazi internment for
16 months after Petain broke off relations with the US in 1942;
member General Eisenhower's SHAEF staff in 1944; ambassador to
Italy 1944-1948; became chief of the State Department's Division
of European Affairs in 1949; political advisor to SHAPE
headquarters in France 1951-1952; counselor US Department State
in Washington 1953-1957; member CFR from the 1950s to the late
1980s; ambassador to Japan in Tokyo 1957-1961; ambassador to
Brussels 1961-1965; assistant secretary of state and head of the
State Department's Bureau of Congressional Relations 1965-1967;
ambassador to Austria 1967-1969; ambassador to Iran during the
Shah's reign 1969-1972 (retired after evading a kidnapping
attempt); independent international affairs consultant in
Washington 1972-1997; director Banque Bruxelles Lambert; since
1981, chair of the European Institute of Management (EIM), a
privatized fascist army intelligence group which tried to
undermine the Belgian democratic process and appears to have
been at the center of a child abuse, torture and murder ring;
member of the editorial advisory board of The Washington Times
since Sun Myung Moon founded it in 1982; chaired Moon's World
Media Conference in Tokyo in the mid-1980s; openly supported the
Women's Federation for World Peace when Moon founded it in 1987;
founding chair of Sun Myung Moon-funded Panda Motor Corp in
China since 1988, a company that went bankrupt within a few
years (October 16, 1989, Daily Herald, 'Moon-backed Panda car
drives into skepticism of auto industry'); his uncle Douglas
MacArthur saved Moon during the invasion of Korea; big supporter
of the UN's Temple of Understanding; died in 1997). In
1990, examining magistrate Freddy Troch reopened some of the
Gang of Nijvel documents and began to look into its political
connections. Two of the persons he became very interested in as
a result were Frans Reyniers (Brussels
police commissioner; assisted in the Gang of Nijvel
investigation; later convicted criminal; regularly visited Les
Atrébates and later The Dolo, Nihoul's favorite hangouts, for
orgies, sometimes involving minors) and Baron de
Bonvoisin. Troch was warned and subsequently kicked off the case
by Melchior Wathelet, a violent child abuser together with Baron
de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, according to X1.
Wathelet was also accused by another source. A good friend and
frequent security consultant to Baron de Bonvoisin was André
Moyen (both lived in Ardenne), a former senior member of both
Belgian military intelligence and the Belgian Stay-Behind
network. In November 1990, Moyen said that the Belgian
stay-behind network was not only anti-communist, but that it
fought subversion of the state in general. Has visited the
Mirano, according to X2, where he was involved in child abuse
parties with Paul Bourlee, Oliver Castiaux and others. Has been
accused and convicted of a number of crimes in his career, but
was later on always acquitted. In August or September 1996, de
Bonvoisin began to interfere with the Dutroux investigation,
undoubtedly because he had gotten wind of X-dossier witnesses
implicating him in child abuse and torture networks. He was even
mentioned as a central person in child hunts. X1 in PV 100.399,
January 11, 1997: "Translation of a fax of X1 of January 6,
1997: She speaks of someone who judged to see if she was
dangerous. It is about someone who prefers the violence: the sex
is a dessert... He often went to hunt with VDB - he works at
Sabena. He participated in the hunts on children... Tony brought
her to a domain - there were 4 other girls (Marianne; Valerie;
Catharine; Sonja)... [present:] VDB [Paul Vanden Boeynants] -
person from Sabena - 4 Gd [gendarme officers] - de Bonvoisin.
There was also the gamekeeper who raped the girls but did no
more than that. Bonvoisin was the most dangerous - he had come
to kill... The girls run into the woods and each time they are
caught they have to remove a piece of clothing. X1 is forced by
Bonvoisin to stay with him - she must choose and point out the
girls... Bonvoisin forces X1 pull the trigger while telling her
that if she misses she is shot. She fires on Sonja and kills
her. Marianne is killed with a cross-bow. X1 is raped and
brought back home." This text can easily be matched with:
1998, Regina Louf, 'Zwijgen is voor daders - De getuigenis van
X1' ('Silence is for perpetrators - The testimony of X1'), p.
104: "He leaned against the pavilion, the other men stood
laughing in a group drinking coffee. A sort of game-keeper kept
two Sint-Hubertus dogs on a leash. I quickly counted them, about
ten men... I knew the domain, with its sloping hills, the big
pond a bit further, the woods and the rhododendron bushes. It
didn't exactly comfort me to be taken out here... Silently I
began to calculate how my chances were of getting out alive, and
hope sank to my shoes. This would be a short hunting party, it
still was far too light and the weather too nice to effectively
hide yourself. And they looked like it was really serious... I
looked at Jo [one of her regular and most violent abusers], he
didn't smile, not even tried to interact with the group. He
tensely looked back. The fear slowly crept up. This was
serious... He [de Bonvoisin] had come to kill, the other men
didn't play a role to me anymore, if he was sitting that unmoved
he would do the most damage... The girls had to run into the
woods, and each time they caught one, they had to take off a
piece of clothing... I didn't have to play the game. He made me
an accomplice by having me find these girls and pointing them
out... When the girls had taken off all their clothes they
started to aim. They shot next to them on purpose, hunting them
up, and laughing about their fears. He came to stand behind me,
readied his gun and helped me to aim it... 'If you miss we shoot
you, if you hit you'll live,' he whispered in my ear, almost
lovingly... [she hit]" His sister Marie-Cecile and
brother-in-law Count Herve d'Ursel were also implicated in some
of the more shocking aspects of the X-dossiers: 1999,
Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulte and Douglas De Coninck,
'De X-dossiers', p. 248: "Present at the first of three sex
parties she [X1] mentioned industrialists Y. and W., lawyer E.,
Annie Bouty, Michel Nihoul, Tony and trader in dogs from the
region of Mechels. What she noticed about the villa, was a large
pool and an impressive collection of model ships which were
exhibited inside just about all over the place ["villa des
bateaux" of Count Herve d'Ursel and Marie-Cecile de Bonvoisin
d'Ursel]. The children were forced to watch a sort of snuff
movie, in which, according to X1, two of her children were
tortured. The purpose of the first night was an initiation. The
adults wore SM clothing and butchered a goat and a rabbit in
front of the eyes of the by then unclothed and tied up children.
According to X1, the whole ritual had nothing to do with
satanism and even less with bizarre sexual preferences of the
adults - they hated this - but everything with a well
thought-out method to condition the kids and to prevent that one
of them would ever speak out. After all, stories about butchered
goats, rabbits and men in black leather suits would not be
believed by anyone. With 'Kristien' it went totally wrong, X1
said. She kept resisting, refused to accept what happened to
her. X1 and Mieke, who had to force her to eat the heart of the
freshly-butchered rabbit, tried to keep her silent - which
didn't succeed." De Bonvoisin invited a number of
Dutroux-Nihoul investigators to his castle. During this meeting
he called up Michel Bourlet, head of the overall Dutroux-Nihoul
investigation, to make an appointment with this person. Bourlet
scheduled a meeting with the baron for the following day, but
never had the intention to actually show up (which he indeed
didn't). In December 1997, de Baron accused inspector De Baets,
the interviewer of X1, who claimed to have been brutally
tortured and raped by the baron and his friends, of having
overstepped his authority in May 1990, while searching his
castle during the CIDEP affair. Unfortunately for the baron,
although De Baets was involved in that case, the actual search
of the baron's house had been conducted by a colleague of De
Baets. Other attempts to defame De Baets were undertaken by
friends of the baron, not the least of them the
earlier-mentioned Andre Moyen, but all of them turned out to be
bogus. De Baets was already "under investigation" at that point
for allegedly not having properly interviewed X1. He would be
acquitted of these charges in 2000, but luckily for the de
Bonvoisin that apparently was no reason to reopen the case of
X1, X2 or any of the other victim-witnesses. |
| Madani Bouhouche |
b. 1952
|
Source(s): X1 ('The X-Dossiers', p.
259-260: "The intention was that she [X1] would show them the
way to 'the factory', where she already had spoken about in a
previous interview. At the time, she talked about a secret
studio where snuff movies were recorded. On the E40
Brussels-Luik she had pointed to exit Sterrebeek. From there she
made the inspectors drive until a crossing. 'Go left here', she
said. A few miles down the road she made the car stop. That's
it, 'the factory'. De Pauw looked and saw a large board with a
name on it [ASCO]. It was the company of a business friend
[Roger Boas] of a politician pointed out by X1 [Paul Vanden
Boeynants]... 'It has changed', she noted [accurately, just as
the description she gave earlier]... X1 describes the BMW -
'dark windows through which you look from the inside out, but
not the other way around' - and immediately leads De Baets to
suspect that this was about the type of cars the Diana Group
drove with. De Baets doesn't reach that conclusion for nothing.
In a writing pad... she [X1] wrote about a 'gendarme officer'
who raped her while he kept a gun pressed to her head. He always
wore dark sunglasses [which reminds most people immediately of
Madani Bouhouche]... That night he [De Baets] tested his
suspicions." Bouhouche was indeed 1 of the 8 persons picked by
X1 on September 30, 1996 out of 40 pictures presented to her
(how many real pictures there ranges from "several" to about
20). Four of the individuals she pointed out intrigued De Baets
(Bouhouche, Christian Amory, Col. Gerard Lhost and Col. Rene
Mayerus) and seemed to confirm his suspicions that key suspects
of the Gang of Nijvel affair were also involved in the child
abuse network. However, X1 also misidentified at least three,
and maybe four pictures, and this time it really appears to have
been a mistake (as opposed to all the manipulations by the
"re-readers" later on). It must be stated, however, that X1
always became very emotional when looking at pictures because of
all the flashbacks she would get. 1999, 'The X-dossiers', p.
261: "X1 identified Madani Bouhouche as the very violent driver
of the BMW who took her to 'the factory' [the rape, torture and
murder room at the ASCO factory] and Christian Amory as a sort
of slave driver who brought her and her fellow victims to
recording studios or parks where older men shot at hunted
children."); X2 (Regularly went to the Dolo where she met
Bouhouche and saw him speak with Henri Bil, the (abusive) driver
and confidant of Vanden Boeynants. Met Bouhouche's spouse at the
Hilton, together with, Willy de Clerck, Vanden Boeynants
(alleged abuser), Wilfried Martens (alleged abuser), Jean Gol
(vice-premier and minister van justice under Martens in the
1980s), Philippe Moureaux, Guy Delvoie (alleged abuser who
partied with Lippens and Davignon) and Nihoul)
Armenian descent. Gendarme officer working under the
authority of the National Bureau for Drugs (NBD). The NBD was
created by Paul Vanden Boeynants and General Leon Fernand
Francois (invited by the US Army's CID in
1969; educated by the DEA; received by President Nixon;
secretary of the International Drug Enforcement Association;
founded the gendarmerie's National Bureau for Drugs (NBD) in the
1972-1975 period with Paul Vanden Boeynants and CIA support, and
became the NBD's initial head; always present at the border when
a new large shipment of marijuana and cocaine of VdB's company
was smuggled into Belgium; leading member of the subversive and
fascist Group G, together with DEA agent Frank Eaton; provided
the CIA chief in Belgium with intelligence about leftists and
other dissident groups) in the 1972-1975 period. The CIA
provided training for the NBD and delivered many, often
questionable, informants. In return General Francois would give
the CIA chief in Belgium intelligence about leftists and other
dissident groups. General Fernand Beaurir, accused of pedophilia
by different sources, became head of the NBD in 1978. In 1979, a
BOB officer began reporting on corruption in the NBD and how top
level officers were involved in the drug trade themselves.
General Francois, for example, was always present at the border
when a new large shipment of marijuana and cocaine of Vanden
Boeynants' company Boucheries Ghysels was smuggled into Belgium.
That these drug transports were going on was already known for
three years, but they were never intercepted. General Francois
was arrested in January 1980 and a large public investigation
into the NBD began. While interrogating Francois and his NBD
associates, two chief investigators, Major Herman Vernaillen and
BOB adjutant Guy Goffinon, were told how they couldn't touch
their suspects because they were protected by prime minister
Paul Vanden Boeynants and Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin, both
members of the fascist CEPIC and Cercle des Nations
organizations. On top of that, General Beaurir, a
Nazi-sympathizing buddy of Vanden Boeynants, and other senior
Gendarme officers began sabotaging the investigation. The
investigators did not back down, and Goffinon even advised that
Vanden Boeynants be arrested on charges of drug trade. In 1981,
Major Herman Vernaillen transferred Bouhouche and his colleague
Robert Beyer (left the Gendarmerie in 1983
with Bouhouche and worked with him until September 1984 in
Agence Recherche Investigation (ARI), a front for other criminal
activities; with Bouhouche he had stolen from the Gendarmerie a
whole database of info on prominent politicians, which they
tried to sell; part of Bouhouche's group to some day conduct a
terror-extortion campaign against warehouses; said Bouhouche
tried to recruit him in a secret organization, but declined the
offer; fled to Paraguay in 1989 for a murder he and Bouhouche
were investigated for; briefly stayed with Jean Bultot in
Paraguay; claimed in February 1988 that he offered to Vanden
Boeynants to steal dossiers about him from the Ministry of
Justice, but how this ex-prime minister refused. Then added how
State Security (attacked for years by the fascist de Bonvoisin
and CEPIC in general) asked him to steal dossiers about Humo
articles dealing with the Pinon affair from the Ministry of
Justice. Highlighted the alleged State Security connection with
the CCC, a "communist"-terrorist Belgian group in the 1980s)
after he had found out that that these two had bugged the office
of a colleague. On October 12, 1981 there was a failed
assassination attempt on Goffinon, followed on October 26 by a
failed attempt on Vernaillen (he and his wife were badly shot
up. His wife ended up being 40% paralyzed). It soon turned out
that pilot and DEA agent Jean-Francois Buslik, a long time
friend of Madani Bouhouche and also a friend of DEA narcotics
specialist Frank Eaton (both top players in Belgium's
NATO-sponsored fascist fifth column), had manufactured the
timing mechanism of the explosive. Bombs with similar unusual
timing mechanisms were later found in a storage space located in
the same street where Paul Latinus and Martial Leukeu lived
(other top players in Belgium's NATO-sponsored fascist fifth
column). Vanden Boeynants, Buslik and Bouhouche were (also) tied
to the assassination attempt on Vernaillen, and as might be
expected, Bouhouche for a while headed the investigation into
the attempt on Goffinon. Buslik fled to the United States where
he assumed a new identity.
On January 1, 1982 there was a break in into the barracks of
the Special Intervention Squadron (Belgium's combined SWAT/CT
team), better known as the Diana Group. Five of the newest
automatic riot guns were stolen, together with 5 FAL rifles, 2
pistols, 15 H&K MP5(SD)s of which ten with silencers, and 2,500
rounds of ammunition. Bouhouche, who was a was a regular visitor
of the Diana Group, was totally implicated, but never
prosecuted. Bouhouche regularly visited the gunsmith of the
Diana Group barracks.
Left the BOB in 1983 together with colleague Robert "Bob"
Beyer. With Beyer he had stolen a whole database of info on
prominent politicians, which they tried to sell to Paul Vanden
Boeynants (accused by several witnesses of
being a sadistic child abuser/killer) (couldn't remember
this fact. Only remembered he had declined an offer of Bouhouche
to steal incriminating files against his person) and Minister of
Justice Philippe Moureaux (accused by The
Sprout of having been present at the murder of Julie and
Melissa, together with Cardinal Danneels) (confirmed it
had been offered to him and that he declined the offer).
February 27, 1988, De Morgen, Francois Raes (BOB officer and
whistleblower who exposed NBD highest level drug dealing)
commentary: "Isn't that story of these two ministers
strange? They are contacted to buy secret information and they
don't inform a single police service. At the very least that's a
lack of civil goodwill." Bouhouche and Beyer founded the
Agence Recherche Investigation (ARI) in April 1983, a private
detective agency. With just a few thousand bucks they apparently
were able hire about half a dozen storage places and apartments,
and buy computers, cars and weapons. Where they got the
additional source of income to buy or hire all this stuff has
not established.
Prominent member of the Belgian Practical Shooting
Association, together with Jean Bultot. Became director and
secretary of the Practical Pistol Club of Belgium (PPCB) in
1982. Instructor at the Parabellum Club, a practical shooting
club. In 1980, Bouhouche had instructed several of his
associates/friends at the Parabellum Club. After the men
(without Bouhouche) left the club they went to drink something
at a nearby cafe. Here they got into a fight with one Frenchman
and two Algerians. The two Algerians were shot and the Frenchman
was hit in the face with a broken beer bottle. The friends of
Bouhouche were arrested or, like Jean-Marie Paul (a close friend
of Paul Latinus), fled to Paraguay.
Closely associated with the Front de la Jeunesse (instructor
there), headed by Francis Dossogne (paid
"advisor" to Baron de Bonvoisin; took his orders from Army
Intelligence major Jean Bougerol, head of PIO and personally
picked by Vanden Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin; another
"private detective"; director of CIDEP, publisher of the fascist
NEM magazine; good friend Jean Bultot, who is closely tied to
the Gang of Nijvel; gave permission to Paul Latinus in '78-'79
to reorganize the Brussels department of Front de la Jeunesse;
according to Martial Lekeu, Dossogne, Latinus and DEA agent
Frank Eaton were leaders of Group G, a Nazi-inspired
NATO-sanctioned parallel organization within the Gendarmerie).
Possibly a member of Westland New Post (often considered an
associate member only), set up and headed by Paul Latinus
(Nazi; recruited by the DIA in 1967, age
17; trained by NATO; reserve lieutenant with the Air Force; paid
informant of State Security; recruited as an intelligence agent
by PIO in 1977; recommended everywhere by the CEPIC leadership;
member Front de la Jeunesse; founder Westland New Post (WNP) in
1981; named as one of the leaders of Group G; suicided in 1984).
Bouhouche was mainly in contact with Latinus' right hand, Michel
Libert. WNP was an initiative of PIO, a US-NATO-sanctioned
private military intelligence group set up by Baron de Bonvoisin
(CEPIC) and Paul Vanden Boeynants (CEPIC) together with the
Belgian army. Latinus and other senior member of WNP claimed the
real name of WNP was Westland National Sozialistische Ordnung,
which for obvious reasons was only used internally. CEPIC
director Bernard Mercier, "inspector-general" of the WNP,
provided a flat to the WNP.
Bouhouche was in contact with members of Group G, a secret
Nazi group within the Gendarmerie that was part of a wider
operation to destabilize the Belgian state. Similar cells were
located in the Army, the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB),
the Royal Military School, the Mobile Legion, the Special
Intervention Squadron (Diana Group), the narcotics section of
the BOB and different other branches of the Gendarmerie. Most
members of a particular cell did not know about the others and
Nazi-fascist infiltration could have been much larger than the
estimated 60 recruits. The Nazis Paul Latinus and Francis
Dossogne, who were sponsored by Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul
Vanden Boeynants, oversaw Group G. Commandant Francois and Frank
Eaton were important members. Gendarme officer Martial Lekeu
(close friend of Commandant Francois and
Paul Latinus; member Group G) exposed the group in 1989
(already gave his information to the proper authorities in 1984,
but nothing was done), after he had fled to the United States.
As a devout Nazi he had been recruited in the late 1970s by a
colleague at the BOB. Lekeu: "When I joined the Gendarmerie
I became a devout fascist. At the Diana Group I got to know
people who had the same convictions as me. We greeted each other
like the Nazis. Every time we clicked the heels of our boots
together in the canteen or halls of the BOB building at the
Leuvense street we heard others do the same. That was a sign of
solidarity.... Together with about 10 other Gendarme officers we
listened to march music of the Waffen-SS. Nazi flags were
decorating the walls." Lekeu explained how an attempt to
destabilize Belgium had been in the workings since 1975. Group G
(Gendarmerie) and Group M (Military) were to conduct a whole
range of terrorist attacks, somehow resulting in the CEPIC crowd
becoming all-powerful. It's likely that the idea was to
introduce police state legislation and possibly even to declare
martial law, but apparently the average fascist didn't know the
exact procedure. Lekeu in 1989 in Panorama magazine: "During
the gatherings of the Front a plan was developed to destabilize
Belgium and to prepare it for a non-democratic regime. This plan
consisted of two parts: a cell political terrorism and a cell
gangsterism. I worked in the cell gangsterism. I was one of the
specialist who had to train young guys with rightist leanings,
to knead them into a well trained gang prepared to do anything.
After that I had to break all contact with them, so they could
exist as an independent group and do robberies without them
realizing they were part of a well-planned plot." The
existence of Group G, the involvement of Bouhouche and Lekeu in
it, and that some organized crime seemed to have a political
motive behind it, was already confirmed by the BOB in an
extensive PV dated March 18, 1985. In the first half of 1989 a
team led by investigating magistrate Freddy Troch and substitute
Willy Acke managed to track down 10 former members of Group G.
They largely confirmed the story of Lekeu, although obviously
tried to marginalize the whole operation. Interestingly, Bob
Beyer once mentioned that Bouhouche asked him if he would be
interested in joining a clandestine organization. Beyer declined
and says he doesn't know what this group was about. Some time
before his death Juan Mendez said to his family and friends that
he had been invited to join a clandestine group that was
gathering data on political adversaries to be used during and
after a coup.
Bouhouche regularly went to the Jonathan in Sint-Gillis, a
night club with strippers and prostitutes. The visitors of the
Jonathan were mainly Nazis and other fascists who often worked
for the police, military or mercenary corporations. The owner of
the Jonathan in the 1980s, Jean-Paul "Pepe" Derijcke, made sure
that pictures and video was taken of his customers when they
were involved with one the club's prostitutes. This material was
used for blackmail purposes. It's probably no coincidence that
Michel Nihoul was a good friend Derijcke. Frequent visitors of
the Jonathan included Jean Bultot (Son of
Lucien Bultot, who was a nominee for the fascist Parti des
Forces Nouvelles; good friend of Francis Dossogne, head of the
fascist Front de la Jeunesse (private militia behind Parti des
Forces Nouvelles); became assistant director of the Sint-Gillis
prison in Brussels in 1978, despite a strong negative advice
from State Security (attacked for years by the fascist de
Bonvoisin and CEPIC in general); acted as a liaison between
several Nazi inmates and Belgian's fascist underground, for
which he allegedly did some recruiting; friend of Jean-Paul
"Pepe" Derijcke, owner of the Jonathan in Sint-Gillis in the
1980s; member Belgian Practical Shooting Association, together
with Bouhouche and other fascists; founded the Prisons Practical
Pistol Club and mainly recruited fascist friends from the police
and prison guards, including Bouhouche, Juan Mendez, Alain
Weykamp and Bob Louvigny; organized shooting events at which a
number of participants usually wore Nazi emblems and shirts of
Soldier of Fortune; at these practical shooting events the theme
'warehouse panic' was quite prominent and was later put into
practice by the Gang of Nijvel; seriously linked to the Gang of
Nijvel; fled to Paraguay in 1986, after the murder on Juan
Mendez (by Bouhouche); from Paraguay he began claiming that
State Security (again, attacked for years by the fascist de
Bonvoisin and CEPIC in general) was involved in the Gang of
Nijvel and gave the advise to examining magistrate Freddy Troch
to reinvestigate the Pinon affair (quite possibly a hidden
threat to Belgium's establishment)), Juan Mendez, Lucien
Ott (born and raised within the Foreign
Legion in Algeria (colony of France); airborne commando veteran;
served in French
Indochina (colony of France); joined French Military
Intelligence; founded the International Bodyguard
Association (IBA) in 1957; bodyguard of de Gaulle during the
height of the OAS crisis; died in 1980), Francis Dossogne
(paid "advisor" to Baron de Bonvoisin; took
his orders from Army Intelligence major Jean Bougerol, head of
PIO and personally picked by Vanden Boeynants and Baron de
Bonvoisin; another "private detective"; director of CIDEP,
publisher of the fascist NEM magazine; good friend Jean Bultot,
who is closely tied to the Gang of Nijvel; gave permission to
Paul Latinus in '78-'79 to reorganize the Brussels department of
Front de la Jeunesse; according to Martial Lekeu, Dossogne,
Latinus and DEA agent Frank Eaton were leaders of Group G, a
Nazi-inspired NATO-sanctioned parallel organization within the
Gendarmerie), Jean-Francis Calmette
(joined the terrorist OAS, which tried to assassinate de Gaulle
and destabilize Algeria; director of Wackenhut Belgium until
1981 (since 1977 allowed in Belgium; does dirty black ops for
CIA, DEA, etc.; had to leave Belgium in early 1980s after some
of its guards were accused of luring immigrant children into
basements and beating them up), and recruited Marcel Barbier
(Wackenhut employee since before
1981; recruited as a guard at European Institute of Management
(EIM) around 1981, the follow-up of the shady Belgium
military-intelligence unit PIO, since 1981 headed by Douglas
MacArthur II; co-founded Westland New Post (WNP) with Latinus in
1981, and became head of its security section (seen as Latinus'
right-hand); when police searched Barbier's apartment for
unrelated reasons, they found it filled with Nazi symbols and
literature, weapons, papers that allowed him entrance to the
barracks of the general staff of the Army in Evere, and a whole
batch of secret NATO documents; his lawyer at that point became
Vincent vanden Bossche, who represented other fascists and was a
member of Cercle des Nations and Ordre du Rouvre, was named as
someone involved in the cover-up of the Pinon child abuse
affair; convicted in 1987 for a double WNP-organized murder, in
which Barbier had slit the victim's throats)
and Eric Lammers (his father
Maurice was involved in the aborted WNP-organized escape of
Bouhouche in 1988; member Westland New Post (WNP); nicknamed
"the beast"; involved in a double murder with Barbier for which
he got "life"; robbed and murdered other people; his lawyer at
some point became Jean-Paul Dumont, accused by a number of
witnesses of child abuse and child murder; arrested in December
2004 after his buddy had killed someone with ten knife stabs
(was attacked by this person with a knife). Lammers was accused
of hiding the body and during house searches inspectors found
child pornography on the computers of both Lammers and his
friend. Lammers was not convicted while his friend got 5 years);
full-contact karate teacher and taught this sport to Group Diana
of the Gendarmerie; all round security expert; secretly hired
mercenaries for South-Africa and hired a farm to train them;
together with Christian Amory associated with the mercenary firm
Contact in Brussels; instructor at the secret fascist training
camps of Front de la Jeunesse in the Ardennes, which were
protected by NATO and overseen by DIA-NATO agent Paul Latinus,
another fascist; member of Westland New Post (WNP), headed by
Latinus; head of security of the annual ball of the PSC in 1980,
headed by Paul Vanden Boeynants at the time; manager of the
Brussels sports club BIBKA); Raymond Lippens
(gangster), and Robert Darville
(member of Les Atrebates, together with
Michel Nihoul (accused of child torture and murder), Michel
Vander Elst (accused of child torture and murder), Jean-Louis
Delamotte (recognized by Nathalie W. as a person who intimidated
her when she was testifying) and a number of police officials
and magistrates; friend of Michel Nihoul, the person implicated
in the Dutroux affair; regularly visited the company Logitel,
just as Achille Haemers, Michel Nihoul and where Marc Dutroux
and Michele Martin have also been seen. The witnesses told that
some of the men there were talking about importing "young white
and brown horses" from eastern Europe by plane, but after the
Dutroux affair thought they had been talking about children. The
witness, Rita Vetsuypens, found out she was married to a
paedophile who was involved with these people; acted as a
gunsmith and delivered explosives to the Haemers gang, which
kidnapped Vanden Boeynants in 1989). Bouhouche is said to
have visited the Mirano, where there was private area where
children were sexually abused. Other visitors of the Mirano
included Philippe Cryns (pimp of children; convicted drug
dealer), Robert Beyer, Patrick Haemers, Charly De Pauw, Jean
Bultot and Michel Nihoul. X2 also mentioned Baron de Bonvoisin,
Oliver Castiaux, Paul Bourlee and Prince Laurent of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (allegedly only masturbated at abuse parties).
Le Mirano was part of the Cercle des Nations milieu, together
with Le Circus and Parc Savoy. X2 said she had seen Bouhouche
talk to Henri Bil, the confidant and private driver of Vanden
Boeynants, at the Dolo, the group sex and child abuse club of
Michel Nihoul. According to her, Bouhouche also sat at the table
with some of her abusers.
Bouhouche was involved in at least one of two armed robberies
in 1982 on transport vehicles loaded in total with 100 pounds of
gold and a number of other precious items. One of the security
guards/drivers was killed but never found. The transport
vehicles were raided by several fake Gendarme officers.
Bouhouche was convicted for one of these robberies in 1995;
Jean-Francois Buslik in absentia. Although it has been "rumored"
that Buslik is protected by US intelligence, he still was
extradited to Belgium in 2000. However, originally convicted for
life, Buslik was released within three weeks.
Bouhouche was suspected but never convicted for the murder on
Juan Mendez (born in 1952; fascist
gun-lover who owned dozens of rifles and pistols; arms merchant
at Fabrique National (FJ) whose Peruvian predecessor fled
Belgium after it was found out he worked for the CIA and was
involved in the illegal arms and drug trade; involved with the
fascist underground since the late 1970s, and was tested to be
introduced to higher circles by Bouhouche; part of Bouhouche's
group to some day conduct a terror-extortion campaign against
warehouses; interrogated several weeks before his murder about
his connection to Douglas Stowell, a rich American who
apparently was working for or with the CIA in Iran-Contra; one
MP5 stolen from the Diana Group was found at his home after he
was killed) on January 7, 1986. At the time, Mendez had
been investigating who was responsible for stealing his large
private gun collection and had begun pointing to Bouhouche as
the main suspect. Bouhouche had a meeting with Mendez on the
morning of January 7, was found in the evening of January 7
visiting Mendez' widow (leading to his arrest and him hiring the
notorious Jean-Paul Dumont as his lawyer), and provided a fake
alibi. Furthermore, Mendez was killed with 9mm hollow point
bullets, which were used by Bouhouche, and according to two
different ballistic reports Bouhouche's gun had fired the
bullets that were found in the head and chest of Mendez.
However, the attorney of Bouhouche was able to come up with yet
another (fraudulent) ballistic report that completely
contradicted the earlier ones. It apparently didn't matter that
this report was written by a person named Claude Dery. Dery, who
knew Bouhouche quite well, was a former member of SRA8 (NATO's
Belgian Stay-Behind network); a member of the Practical Shooting
Association; PIO, the private military intelligence group of de
Bonvoisin and Vanden Boeynants; and orders like the Confrerie
des Hospitaliers de Notre-Dame d'Aulne (with Jean Bougerol) and
Milice (militia) de Jesus Christ. Mendez, by the way, was an
arms merchant who had become involved in Iran-Contra (he claimed
against his wishes). Apparently, according to PV 21.467,
Bouhouche, Beyer and Christian Amory
(officer in the BOB; part of Bouhouche's group to some day
conduct a terror-extortion campaign against warehouses; worked
in the Walloon-Brabant cell that investigated the Gang of
Nijvel; convicted in 2003, together with Baron Benoit de
Bonvoisin and Pierre de Bonvoisin, for having forged KGB
documents to prove a "vast left-wing conspiracy" against Benoit
involving State Security) had been making plans to
assassinate Dery for some unknown reason. Starting in 1979,
Mendez had been involved with a plan of Bouhouche to extort a
number of warehouses through terrorist bombings. Robert Beyer
(BOB), Christian Amory (BOB officer crucial in getting security
plans of the warehouses) and Rene Tchang Wei Ling (brother of an
important BOB officer) were involved in this plan also. Jean
Bultot has been named also. This plan never went through as
Bouhouche was arrested in 1986 for the murder on Mendez.
Confronted with testimonies of Christian Amory, Bouhouche
admitted to his interrogators that recruiting Mendez had been an
assignment given to him by the WNP leadership and that there was
a political motive behind the planned attacks. Bouhouche (and
possibly Bultot) recruiting Mendez was part of an admission test
for this person (although they declined, both Mendez and Beyer
were later invited to join a secret group).
Madani Bouhouche, Robert Beyer and their friend Jean Bultot
were suspected of involvement with the Gang of Nijvel, which
committed terrorist acts in 1982, 1983 and 1985, apparently in
an effort to destabilize the Belgian state. No direct evidence
against Bouhouche and Beyer exists. As for Bultot, when on
November 9, 1985 a stolen burnt out Golf GTI, belonging to the
Gang of Nijvel, was found on the side of the road, detectives
found a charred piece of paper with handwriting of Bultot's
girlfriend, Claudine Falkenburg. The piece of paper was a
fragment of a February 1984 speech that Bultot had given in the
shooting club Triton. At that time, Falkenburg worked at the
ministry of Cecile Goor, a former member of the notorious CEPIC.
The speech of Bultot was given during a shooting competition he
had organized and was patroned by Cecile Goor and secretary of
state Pierre Mainil (both formerly of CEPIC) and the Cultural
Department of the US Embassy in Brussels. In that same month at
the Triton, Bultot had given a demonstration to civil servants,
law enforcement officers and intelligence agents about the use
of kevlar in car doors. Coincidentally, traces of kevlar were
found in the car doors of the burnt out Golf GTI. Other
inconclusive evidence was found in the car that might have
belonged to Falkenburg. During a house search inspectors found
the telephone number of doctor Pinon, responsible for the
covered-up Pinon affair, in Falkenburg's address book. There
hasn't been any real follow up on these discoveries. In one
attack the Gang of Nijvel used a tactic only seen in special
police forces like SWAT or the Belgium's Special Intervention
Squadron (Diana Group). The ammunition used by the Gang of
Nijvel also was unique to the Diana Group.
Bouhouche was arrested in January 1986 on suspicions of
having murdered Juan Mendez. A search in Bouhouche's house
turned out he had a collection of Adolf Hitler pictures and a
number of carnival masks (possibly used during Gang of Nijvel
operations). Beyer was arrested in January 1988 and revealed
some the dealings of himself and his colleagues Bouhouche,
Christian Amory and Rene Tchang in their preparations of
extorting a number of warehouses. Bouhouche was caught in 1988
for trying to break out of jail with help from some of his
fascist friends from Front de la Jeunesse and WNP. Beyer, Amory
and Tchang were released in August 1988, Bouhouche in November.
Bouhouche and Beyer were arrested again in September 1989 for
having shot on two (and killing one) Libyan diamond dealers in
Antwerp (a failed attempt to enforce a payment to a third
party). Convicted in 1995 for the murder on the Libyan diamond
dealer. Released on parole in September 2000 after serving 11
years of his 20-year jail term, including the six years he spent
in pre-trial remand detention. Moved with his girlfriend to the
French Pyrenees, where they lived on a remote, simple farm near
the city of Foix. Still in contact with his former extreme-right
friends, including Alain Weykamp. In November 2005, Bouhouche
was beheaded after a large clump of wood flew off a tree he was
cutting with a chainsaw. The Belgian justice department found
out about his death only "by coincidence" two months after the
event had happened. Detectives were sent to search his house,
but apparently nothing of interest was found. |
| Paul Bourlee |
b. 1929
|
Source(s): X2 (Present at sex
parties in a castle near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, together
with Jean-Paul Dumont, Baron de Bonvoisin and many others;
present at smaller child abuse parties where girls were tortured
by Baron de Bonvoisin et al in his residence at
Faulx-Les-Tombes; went to Le Mirano where he was involved in
child abuse parties where cocaine was distributed; went hunting
with Baron de Bonvoisin and others during which underaged girls
were raped and abused.)
Attorney and judge. Went to the Mirano, according to X2,
where he was involved in child abuse parties with Baron de
Bonvoisin, Oliver Castiaux and others. |
| Annie Bouty |
unknown
|
Source(s): X1 (Bouty was
present at child abuse parties with Nihoul, Joost Bert, Vander
Elst, Leopold Lippens, etc., and present at the murder of
Katrien De Cuyper. When X1 was asked about Nihoul, she told
that in the early 1980s he took her to a certain apartment. She
drew the apartment and later took the investigators to it. It
was located in the Dupréstraat in Jette (Brussels suburb) and
had belonged in the early 1980s to Annie Bouty. The drawing of
the apartment's layout was accurate.)
Law expert who started out as a trainee of Jacques Marres, a
counselor to Mobutu Sese Seko (the CIA and Belgian
colonists-sanctioned dictator of Zaire/Congo). Because of this
she had quite a number of higher level connections by the early
1970s and knew people in politics, the justice department,
embassies, banking and soccer. First met Nihoul in 1971, but it
would take several years before they would see each other again.
Met Nihoul again in 1974 and they went to live together in 1975.
In the late 1970s, Nihoul convinced Bouty to leave her mentor
Jacques Marres and to set up her own attorney's office
specialized in seeking asylum for refugees from Africa. Nihoul
took care of public relations and brought in customers. Philippe
Deleuze, a friend of Bouty from college, became a partner in the
law firm of Bouty and Nihoul in 1980. Deleuze was married to
Francoise Van Espen (acted as godmother of Nihoul's son), the
sister of Jean-Claude Van Espen, the examining magistrate who
played a crucial role in (covering up) the murder on Christine
Van Hees and the Dutroux/Nihoul/X-witnesses investigations.
Jean-Claude Van Espen himself acted as an occasional partner in
the firm. Deleuze was a member of CEPIC and a board member of
the Tentoonstellingspark (exposition park) foundation, of which
Paul Vanden Boeynants was chairman. Vanden Boeynants and Deleuze
were said to have been responsible for the appointment of
Jean-Claude Van Espen to examining magistrate. Nihoul soon came
into contact with Vanden Boeynants. Deleuze resigned after 10
months in 1980 after stating that Nihoul was giving too much
business to Bouty and too little to him. His wife, Francoise,
also complained that the company received too many complaints
from clients who did not receive answers to their letters.
Nihoul was responsible for that. Bouty had an apartment at the
Rue Dupre in Jette (district in Brussels) from 1971 to 1981. X1
(Regina Louf) pointed out this address as a location where she
had been abused by Nihoul and Bouty in the early 1980s, and
accurately drew a layout of the apartment. PV 116.018, October
25, 1996 (4th interview with De Baets and Hupez): "X1 also
specifies the presence of Bouty when she went through the rapes
of Nihoul in Jette, rue Dupre 51. Bouty actively took part in
the feasts and liked to hurt the children (put certain objects
in the orifices of children... knives, screwdrivers... which
wounded the children). Bouty had the role of executioner."
Bouty was also seen at other abuse/torture parties by X1. Bouty
and Nihoul separated in 1982, but remained close over the years.
In April 1984, a close family member of a prominent judge died
in Le Mirano from an overdose of drugs, resulting in an
investigation which not only uncovered evidence of drug dealing,
but also of a clandestine paedophile ring there headed by
Philippe Cryns (co-founded Parc Savoy in
1985 with individuals like Charly De Pauw and Ado Blaton. Member
of Cercle des Nations, together with such figures as Paul Vanden
Boeynants, Baron de Bonvoisin and Cercle founder Jean Violet).
The prosecution and the judge decided to focus only on evidence
dealing with drug dealing for which Cryns was sentenced to three
years in jail in 1986. His partner Alexis Alewaeters,
represented by Didier de Quevy (the lawyer of Dutroux in 1989)
at the instigation of Bouty, received 5 years. Both Alewaeters,
a close associate of Nihoul and Bouty, and Cryns were named as
the main organizers of paedophile parties at Le Mirano and
private villas. Witness VM1, a child prostitute employed by
Cryns, explained on February 16-17, 1997: "I had to pick up
children and get them drunk or give them drugs, then take 'em to
the private area [of the Mirano], where they were abused."
About tapes that had been confiscated on which allegedly Cryns'
clients could be seen having sex with the children, judge Claire
De Gryse said she didn't watch them, "because everyone
assured me that nothing was on there that would even shock a
capuchin." VM1 also told that he witnessed children being
murdered and how newly-initiated who worked against the program
ended up in car accidents. From mid to the late 1980s, Nihoul
worked with Bouty and her law firm Cadreco (seemingly a rename
of their earlier law firm), which was specialized in
representing refugees from Africa (especially Nigeria, with
whose government Bouty had close relations) in Belgium. On
October 6, 1986, Lt.-Col. Guido Torrez, head of the Neufchateau
district of the gendarmerie, personally called the gendarmerie
in Schaarbeek to tell a gendarme officer to leave his suspect, a
Portuguese named Juan Borges, alone. Why Torrez made this highly
unusual move came out three years later when the company of
Annie Bouty, Cadreco, went bankrupt and all the company's
financial records were sieged. It turned out that Bouty's friend
Michel Nihoul had been the one who personally called up and
convinced Col. Torrez to leave Borges alone. Borges was a
business partner of Nihoul in the underworld, and was involved
in the illegal trade of gold, drugs, fake dollars, art and
apparently also humans. He had high level connections to the
Italian mafia and fascist members of the Jonathan Club like
Frederic Godfroi (inspector of the BOB in
Brussels who became a gang leader; friend of Jean Bultot and
acquainted with Nihoul). In 1985-1986, Borges owned the
firm Candy Medical, which was a front for illegal weapons
trafficking. This firm was located in a building owned by the
Security Bureau of the European Union/Commission, headed by
fascist Pierre Eveillard, whose brother was a police
commissioner who protected the Dolo. Brigitte Jenart, Borges'
girlfriend since 1983 who only found out about the criminal
circuit he was involved with after a while, in 1996 claimed that
it took only one call from Bouty at the time for the gendarmerie
to leave Borges alone. Jenart also claimed that Bouty had it
checked once in a while if Borges had not appeared on an
internal watchlist of the gendarmerie. Jenart committed suicide
in April 1998. Bouty admitted in 1989 that she had told Nihoul
to call Torrez. Nihoul founded J.M. Nihoul et Associes in 1987,
together with his son. Bouty had an advisory role during the
founding of the partnership. X69, a transvestite specialized in
SM and scatology, testified that in 1993 or 1994 he was asked by
a pimp, Micha, from Berendrecht, if he wanted to make 50,000
franks in one night. X69 was interested and was pointed towards
an old house in Berendrecht. While walking towards the house he
noticed a large American car and "a gray Mercedes with a
license plate of the Consular Corps" (1999, The X-Files, p.
331). X69 found 4 men and 3 women inside, including Michel
Nihoul and Annie Bouty. Three girls and a boy were also present,
which he estimated between 8 and 13 years old and probably from
the Netherlands or Germany. Nihoul had sex with several children
while Bouty made them watch her while having sex with a guy of
about 30 years old. X69 didn't touch the children and was very
uncomfortable that night. He had pee sex with a guy in his
fifties. Investigators were only able to find the house after a
while, because it had been demolished in the mean time. Michel
Lelievre, the future partner of Dutroux in kidnapping young
girls, met Casper Flier, the former business partner of Annie
Bouty, in jail in late 1993. Flier had been convicted for
international cocaine trafficking while Lelievre had been locked
up for trafficking XTC pills. After his release, Lelievre went
to work at a gas station owned by Flier. In March 1995, Lelievre
stayed a couple of days at the place of Annie Bouty, and it was
here that Lelievre allegedly first met Nihoul. Lelievre and
Nihoul became partners-in-crime in trafficking stolen cars and
drugs, with Nihoul telling Lelievre what to do. Lelievre at some
point introduced Dutroux to Nihoul, but exactly when, and if
Dutroux and Nihoul had never met before, is not known (like X1
claimed; they also moved in the same milieu). Dutroux and
Lelievre were arrested on August 13, 1996 on suspicions of
having kidnapped Laetitia. Nihoul was arrested on August 16, and
although released, he was heavily implicated in the kidnappings.
Bouty was arrested on September 5, but after a few
interrogations released on October 20. Interestingly, after
Bouty had been arrested, magistrate Benoit Dejemeppe
(accused of trade in drugs and children by one person)
contacted the controversial police commissioner Georges Marnette
(accused of child abuse and spreading
disinformation) and informed about the case against
Bouty. Dejemeppe questioned if there was enough evidence for her
arrest and proposed to transfer her dossier out of the
pedophilia dossier and into the car fraud dossier. This
intervention of an outside judge was so unusual that
investigators at Neufchateau wrote a report about it. Dejemeppe
initially denied having made such an inquiry, but was later
forced to admit it. In the days after the arrest of Nihoul and
Bouty, examining magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte asked the
gendarmerie if they had any files on Bouty and Nihoul. The
gendarmerie lied and told Connerotte they had nothing on them.
Bouty has never been investigated since her release on October
20, 1996. |
| Olivier Castiaux |
b. 1953
|
Source(s): X2 (Pimp of X2 in the
mid-1980s; tortured girls along side Baron de Bonvoisin and
others, but seemingly not X2)
Bailiff of the Justice Department. Reporter and spokesperson
of the judicial district of Nivelles. Bailiff of the Human
Resources Management night 2006. Director general Heureux Abri.
Member of the Rotary Club. According to X2, her pimp Oliver
Castiaux knew Jacques van Camp, the owner of the Trois Canards
inn who was murdered by the Gang of Nijvel, well. Alleged child
abusers as Paul Vanden Boeynants, General Fernand Beaurir, and
Jean-Paul Dumont frequently came here. |
| de Caters family |
-
|
Source(s): X1 (forced to kill a girl
on a domain owned by the de Caters family in the presence of
Tony and Nihoul; their neighbor was-is Axel Vervoordt, who has
been accused of pedophilia by Count Yann)
A description of Castle Kattenhof in 's Gravenwezel was given
by X1 and later identified by the investigators. According to
X1, children were tortured and killed in the gatekeeper's
apartment on this castle's domain. Among them was Katrien de
Cuyper, who she was forced to kill in the presence of
individuals as Nihoul, Bouty, Leopold Lippens and Michel Vander
Elst. The de Caters family owned property in streets in Knokke
in which X1 had already pointed out some apartments where she
was abused. The castle was jointly owned by brothers Baron
Philippe (b. 1939) and Alain (b. 1932), and the son of Alain,
Patrick (b. 1963).
Patrick is a member of Cercle de Wallonië, together with
Etienne Davignon, Prince Philippe de Chimay, Comte Jean-Pierre
de Launoit (vice-Président Cercle de Lorraine), Elio Di Rupo,
and Aldo Vastapane (all of them accused of child abuse at some
point). Patrick is also the manager of construction company
Bageci, the Wallonian branch of Groupe CBE, which is headed by a
person who is-was a director of Suez and the ING banking group
(companies with people on their board that have been accused of
child abuse). |
| Willy Claes |
b. 1938
|
Source(s): X3 (PV 151.829, June 6,
1997: "She thinks to have recognized Willy Claes [file
says born in 1938] and Dr. Vanden Eynde". This was at extreme
torture parties in the 1950s until at the latest 1962)
City council member of Hasselt 1964-1968. Member of
Parliament since 1968. Spokesman for the Belgian Socialist Party
beginning in 1971. Appointed by prime minister as an official in
the Department of Education in the early 1970s. Became minister
of economic affairs in 1973. Minister of economic affairs in the
government of Leo Tindemans 1977-1978 (Paul Vanden Boeynants was
Defense Minister). Minister of economic affairs in the
government of Paul Vanden Boeynants 1978-1979. Vice prime
minister and minister of economic affairs in several governments
of Wilfried Martens 1979-1981 (Paul Vanden Boeynants was vice
prime minister and defense minister until October 1979; Guy
Mathot minister of public works and later of education). Vice
prime minister and minister of economic affairs in the
government of Mark Eyskens April-December 1981. Vice prime
minister and minister of economic affairs 1988-1992 (Melchior
Wathelet was justice minister and another vice prime minister).
Deputy prime minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs . Chairman
of the Party of European Socialists in July 1992. Visited
Bilderberg in June 1994, before he became secretary general of
NATO. Secretary general of NATO 1994-1995. Went to Bilderberg in
1995. Had to withdraw from his NATO position during the Agusta
Affair, in which the socialist party was accused of having
accepted large bribes from Agusta (not to mention Dassault) in
1988 and 1989. In turn leading Socialist politicians made sure
the Belgian government bought their helicopters. This affair is
said to have killed Andre Cools in 1991, supposedly after this
person threatened to expose the whole deal after not having
received his cut. Claes was sentenced to three years probation
and was not allowed to practice politics anymore until 2003.
Being 65 by that time he did not return to politics. Guy Mathot,
who was accused in the Pinon child abuse affair, was another
defendant in the Agusta Affair and was rumored to have largely
been responsible for the death of Andre Cools. Went to
Bilderberg in 2003. Member of the Grand Orient Freemasonry lodge
Tijl Uilenspiegel. Used to be married to Suzanne Meynen, a
former nurse and midwife, now active in several associations
providing psycho-social and medical assistance. Announced to
divorce his wife in December 2005 after 42 years of marriage.
December 23, 1998, BBC, 'World: Europe Ex-Nato chief guilty of
corruption': "The former Secretary General of Nato, Willy
Claes has been given a three-year suspended jail sentence after
being found guilty of corruption by Belgium's highest court. Mr
Claes was one of 12 defendants standing trial over allegations
that two defence firms paid millions of dollars in bribes during
the 1980s to secure Belgian Government contracts. He was the
Belgian economics minister at the time and signed the contracts
with the Italian helicopter manufacturer, Agusta, and Dassault
Electronique, a French aviation firm. The verdict means that Mr
Claes knew such payments were being made and that they were made
before the contract for the helicopters was awarded. He had
denied knowing that his Socialist Party received any payments
from the companies. The prosecution has had to show that the
payments were bribes for the contracts and not simply gifts to
the party - that was deemed legal if morally dubious until 1989.
Several other former Belgian ministers and a French
industrialist were also on trial. The former defence minister
Guy Coeme, 52, was given a two-year suspended sentence. Former
premier Guy Spitaels, 67, and Serge Dassault, 75, head of
France's Dassault aviation concern, were also convicted of
corruption. No sentences have been announced yet. The Agusta
affair, as it became known, arose out of an investigation into
the murder of another senior socialist, Andre Cools. He was shot
dead in 1991 after hinting that he would expose his party's
corrupt activities."
Added in 2008:
1) following is a rather vague story of Willy Claes being
involved in a "lodge", which included among its members people
tied to the Haemers Gang.
Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as published on PEHI website),
pp. 8, 9, 27: "For over 8 years A.H. [an informant] was
actively part of the "Lodge"... Eric H. [Haemers] also became a
member of the lodge in that period... A.H. was contacted this
weekend by a certain LAMBIOTTE Robert.../... [sic] Here it is
about one of the leaders of the lodge and he asked A.H. to keep
quiet about all the things he knew. Otherwise it would cause an
explosion... At some of the meetings at which A.H. was present,
[Jean] GOL, [Willy] LECLERQ, [Willy] CLAES etc. were also
present... E.H. would also belong to "the Lodge". He was
introduced in 1983 by Roland Wilmart. He would have participated
in several of the meetings. E.H. was surprised over the power
and "protection" which goes out from this lodge. He is a friend
of a certain lawyer, "Jakian:" (phonetic), who would be staff
holder of the lawyers. JAKIAN is a leading figure within the
lodge." Jean Gol was a partouser at Les Atrebates in the
early 1980s, alongside
Jean-Michel Nihoul
and several police
officers, businessmen and lawyers with close ties to child
abuse.
2) Willy Claes and his friends also appeared in the 1994 ATLAS
Dossier. November 21, 1994, Liege Gendarmerie, ATLAS Dossier,
confidential rapport on Felix Przedborski's
mafia-intelligence-business-banking "nebula": "PRZEDBORSKI
would be the Grand Master of the Jewish Lodge [131] and would be
very influential in global politics, this either via friendship
or corruption. He would be in direct contact with the following
persons:
a) André COOLS
- assassinated Belgian minister
- PRZEDBORSKI would have had privileged contact with him,
considering the above mentioned friendship with his Father
- It is specified that they met rather often, and sometimes
secluded themselves to discuss in private, particularly in
ANTIBES [132 ]/ FRANCE (see hereafter)
b) Willy DECLERK [133]
- former Belgian minister
- would currently be with the EEC (parliamentary)
- It is said that he would take orders from PRZEDBORSKI
c) Willy CLAES [134]
- former Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs (last function)
- at the moment, Secretary-General of NATO in Brussels.
d) Alfred CAHEN
- Belgian ambassador to France
- It is known that his wife would be Mrs. Nicole de BEAUVAY, old
First lady of Honor of Queen FABIOLA. She would have left the
Court when her husband took his functions in Paris.
- Would be Master of the Lodge (??)
- Would have been a friend of the late King Baudouin
- Would be a friend of Belgian minister Willy Claes
- Former Secretary-General of the Department of Foreign Affairs
(under Mr. Simonet).
- It would be at the time of these functions, in ’86, when he
would have signed a diplomatic passport which would have been
given to PRZEDBORSKI…
e) Francois MITTERAND [135]
- French president
f) Pierre BERIGOVOY [136]
- former French prime minister
- would have committed suicide last year
g) Jacques DELORS
- president of the European Commission
- former French Minister of Finance
- named as a possible presidential candidate in France
- would have worked for Banque de France" |
| Philippe Cryns
|
unknown
|
Source(s): VM1 (worked 4 years for Cryns in
1970s and-or early 1980s as a child prostitute who had to bring
in other children)
Added in 2008: Declaration of witness Marie-Helene Colleye to
the Belgian Judiciary, October 24, 199x, (copy for Neufchateau
cell): "The witness points out several people implicated in
various affairs. She informs us that she already shared what she
knew with the PJ [Judicial Police] of NAMUR [Namen].. She says
to us that she received threats on behalf of examining
magistrate MAROTTE of the NAMUR District Attorney's office. She
seems to know an enormous amount of things, but doesn't want the
NAMUR District Attorney's office to handle the information. The
PJ [Judicial Police] warned her over what she said. A gendarme
of the BSR [Special Investigations Unit of the Gendarmerie] of
NAMUR, Daniel PETIT, would have liked to help her but he feared
for his family and his job. She gives us a series of names:
Philippe CRYNS, +/- 50 years old, known to the justice
department, went to prison on drug charges in 85-86 which was
related to the history of the MIRANO. There also were held "pink
ballets" but he didn't worry because he had a video cassette [of
these events] on which one could see politicians. The lawyer of
CRYNS obtained an "arrangement."... Lucien DELFOSSE, notary in
Eghezée, who is protected by the District Attorney's office in
NAMUR... His mistress "Marcelle", who works in a government
office, arranges special evening parties. He would have abused
his own children. His wife is well-informed of all this and is
very unhappy. Andre NEESEN, friend of a deceased friend, is at
the moment in prison in HUY (?? [sic]). He would be
well-informed of many things: on MAROTTE and the sex party
organization in collaboration with JASPAR Francine."
Director of Laboratoire Dr Renaud, a cosmetics company.
Co-founded Parc Savoy in 1985 with individuals like Charly De
Pauw and Ado Blaton. Member of Cercle des Nations, together with
such figures as Paul Vanden Boeynants, Baron de Bonvoisin and
Cercle founder Jean Violet. Prominent member of Le Mirano in
Brussels, which was part of the Cercle des Nations milieu,
together with Le Circus and Parc Savoy. Other frequent members
of Le Mirano were Madani Bouhouche, Robert Beyer, Patrick
Haemers, Charly De Pauw, Jean Bultot and Michel Nihoul. X2 also
mentioned Baron de Bonvoisin and a member of the royal family.
In April 1984 a close family member of a prominent judge died in
the Mirano from an overdose of drugs, resulting in an
investigation which not only uncovered evidence of drug dealing,
but also of a clandestine paedophile ring headed by Cryns. The
prosecution and the judge decided to focus only on evidence
dealing with drug dealing for which Cryns was sentenced to three
years in jail in 1986. His partner Alexis Alewaeters received 5
years. Both Alewaeters, a close associate of Nihoul and Bouty,
and Cryns were named as the main organizers of paedophile
parties at Le Mirano and personal villas. Witness VM1, a child
prostitute employed by Cryns, explained on February 16-17, 1997:
"I had to pick up children and get them drunk or give them
drugs, then take 'em to the private area [of the Mirano], where
they were abused." About tapes that had been confiscated on
which allegedly Cryns' clients could be seen having sex with the
children, judge Claire De Gryse said she didn't watch them,
"because everyone assured me that nothing was on there that
would shock even a capuchin." VM1 also told that he
witnessed children being murdered and how newly-initiated who
worked against the program ended up in car accidents. |
| Viscount Etienne Davignon |
b. 1932
|
Source(s): X2 (Present at parties with
underage girls in villas in Knokke, including the one of his
good friend Leopold Lippens, and Hotel Cromwell; The following
text could well be a reference to Davignon, as he seems to be
the only European Commissioner accused in the X-Files: December
29, 1996, Sunday Times: "In a separate twist, a Belgian
newspaper claimed yesterday that a former European commissioner
was among a group of judges, senior politicians, lawyers and
policemen who attended orgies held in a Belgian chateau and
organized by Michel Nihoul, one of Dutroux's alleged
accomplices. La Derniere Heure, which claimed to have a guest
list, did not name the commissioner but said he "came with a
girl, Josette, nicknamed Jojo, the Bomb".")
Great great grandson of one of the revolutionaries which
succeeded in separating Belgium from Holland in 1830 and to make
it a Catholic state again. Grandson of Julien Davignon, an
influential Belgian minister of Foreign Affairs. Etienne
Davignon was born in Hungary in 1932. His family has
intermarried with some of the more powerful Belgian blue blood
families like the Janssens, Boëls, and Solvays. Studied law at
Facultés Saint-Louis in Brussels and the Université Catholique
de Louvain (UCL). Completed his education with studies in
Philosophy and Economy. Scholar of the Benedictine monks of
Maredsous (at SG, he found out that three others were
Benedictines: Maurice Lippens, Claude de Villenfagne van AnHyp,
and Guy Ullens de Schooten). In 1959, Davignon joined the
Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as attache for the
department of African Affairs. Became head of the cabinet of
Paul-Henri Spaak in 1964 (as a follow up of Baron Robert
Rothschild, and, together with Etienne Davignon, a governor of
the Atlantic Institute in 1987), a position he held in 1965 when
Pierre Harmel became prime-minister. During his career at the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he was directly involved with
Belgium's policies in Africa, the independence of Rwanda and
Burundi and the solution to the Belgium and Zaire conflict. He
was also a key figure behind the report on the future of the
Atlantic Alliance (Harmel report) and he presided over the
committee which prepared the first proposals regarding political
cooperation between EEC members (Davignon Report, 1974-1975).
Following the oil crisis in 1973, Davignon chaired the
international conference that established an oil-sharing treaty.
First president of the International Energy Agency 1974-1977.
Worked as vice-president for the European Commission from 1977
to 1985, where he was in charge of industry, research and
energy. He was active in the restructuring of European industry
(steel, textiles, synthetic fibres) and in promoting new
research cooperative ventures in information technology and
telecommunications. In 1982, as Industry Commissioner, Davignon
challenged Pehr Gyllenhammar (Volvo, Chase Manhattan, Kissinger
Associates, Aspen Institute; later on managing director of
Lazard, vice chairman of Rothschild Europe, and chairman of
Rothschild Pension Funds) to organize a group of top European
businessmen to lobby the European Commission. The Gyllenhammar
group was to become the highly influential European Round Table
of Industrialists or ERT, drawing up policy for Europe. Together
with his Solvay business partner, Baron Daniel Janssen, Davignon
was a long time member of the ERT. At the ERT Etienne chaired
the working group on Trade and Investment. In 1985, he left the
European Commission and joined Société Générale de Belgique.
After the French Suez Group took over SGB in 1988, Etienne
Davignon became its chairman and remained that until 2001. In
March 1988 Gerald Bull, the famous gun builder, received a
contract from the Iraqis to build 3 superguns, one of them a
smaller prototype. The 2 full-size superguns were 150 meters /
450 feet long with a bore of one meter / three feet and, if
finished, would have been capable of placing a 2000 kg / 4500 lb
rocket propelled projectile into orbit (its purpose). Project
Babylon, as it was called, was said to be financed by Société
Générale. Bull had earlier built hundreds of revolutionary
artillery pieces for the Iraqis and had upgraded their Scud
missiles. He was assassinated in Brussels on March 22, 1990. It
has been claimed that the former Belgian deputy prime minister
Andre Cools, who was assassinated on July 18, 1991, was almost
done investigating the Bull murder and wanted to lay bare an
international criminal syndicate. Among the persons that
supposedly were about to be indicted were Dick Cheney, Neil
Bush, Frank Carlucci, Donald Rumsfeld, Jonathan Aitken (head of
Le Cercle; member Privy Council), Count Hervé de Carmoy, and the
Barbours, Racicots, and Bronfmans. At the time these people were
assassinated, a scandal surfaced in Italy and the United States:
$4 billion of unauthorized loans to Iraq were exposed, made by
the Atlanta branch of the Italian Banca Nazionale del Lavoro.
BNL had attracted the secretive Kissinger Associates as a
business advisor, a firm Davignon, at some point, became a
director of (identified as a director in April 2002, CSR Europe
Magazine). Henry Kissinger, a close friend of Davignon, also sat
on the advisory board of BNL. Davignon joined the board of
Minorco in 1990 and retired from it in 2002, 3 years after this
company had merged with Anglo-American Corporation (AGM). At
that moment he stepped down to vice-chairman. Co-founder of the
Association for the Monetary Union of Europe and president from
1991 to 2002. In 2002, after it had fulfilled its purpose of
establishing the European Monetary Union (EMU), the group was
dissolved just as quietly as it had been erected. Davignon is
chairman of the Paul-Henri Spaak Foundation, chairman of the
Royal Institute for International Relations (Belgian version of
RIIA), and chairman of CSR Europe (European business network).
Etienne Davignon is a founder of the EU-Japan Centre for
Industrial Cooperation and was chairman of the EU-Japan Business
Dialogue 1995-2005. The follow-up of Davignon, Baron Georges
Jacobs, at the time, was chairman of UCB SA (owned by the
Janssens) and Delhaize SA. Davignon is a president of Friends of
Europe and a director of The European Institute (since about
1995). Honorary chairman of Bilderberg since 1999, after Lord
Carrington resigned. He is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations and the Trilateral Commission. Etienne Davignon sits
on the Board of Advisors of 'Dialogues: Islamic World - U.S. -
The West', together with Frank Wisner (Le Cercle) and Prince El
Hassan bin Talal (head Club of Rome). The Dialogues, which are
located in New York, are sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation
and Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Etienne Davignon is chairman of
the Board of the Institut Catholique des Hautes Etudes
Commerciales in Brussels. He is a vice-chairman of
Suez-Tractebel and Société Générale de Belgique (owned by Suez).
He is a director of the Suez Group, which owns both companies.
Davignon holds 10,000 shares in the Suez Group, while all other
directors, including its chairman, own between 2,000 (almost
all) and 5,500 shares (only one). The Suez Group itself is
ultimately owned by the Belgian Frère (controls the Charleroi
Group, a name probably not so popular anymore these days) and
the Canadian Desmarais (Privy Council) families. In 2002,
Tractebel was accused of business dealings with the billionaire
(mafia) oligarchs in Kazakhstan, and their ally, Kazakh
President Nursultan Nazarbayev. Among these Oligarchs were
Patokh Chodiev and Alijan Ibragimov, both closely connected to
their London business partners. Davignon is a vice-chairman of
Fortis (Dutch-Belgian governed banking group). Appointed
chairman of Fortis' newly-established International Advisory
Council in 2001, together with Baron Paul Janssen (dr. and chair
of Janssen Pharmaceutica; member Vatican Scientific Acadamy) and
Guy de Selliers de Moranville (Solvay director). Maurice Lippens
would attended the meetings of the IAC. Davignon was president
of Union Miniere Belgique and vice-president of Petrofina,
Arbed, Salem, Sidmar, Foamex, Gilead (USA), and Pechiney.
Davignon was, or is, a member of the Board of the Générale de
Banque, Maritime Belge, Compagnie des Wagons-Lits, Recticel,
Sibeka, SN Airholding, Palais des Beaux-Arts (Belgium), Accor
SA, Sofina (owned by the Boël family and chaired by Yves Boël),
BASF, ICL, Solvay SA, Kissinger Associates (he's a friend of
Henry and they have attended soccer/football matches together),
and several SGB group companies. Etienne Davignon is a member of
Belgium's most exclusive private club, Cercle de Lorraine - Club
of Lotharingen. He is also a member of Cercle Gaulois, another
elite Belgian club, and the Royal Sporting Club of Anderlecht.
Listed as a governor of the Ditchley Foundation in 2000. Used to
be a director of the Royal Club of Historic Cities and Gardens
in Belgium (Koninklijke Vereniging der Historische Woonsteden en
Tuinen van België), together with Baron Albert Frère, the
Marquess de Trazegnies, Prince Alexander de Merode (former
chair), Prince Lorenz (honorary chair), Count Ghislain d'Ursel
and Count Emmanuel de Lichtervelde. Together with the Marquess
de Trazegnies and the mayor of Venice, the Davignon is a patron
of Veneziaviva, a foundation which is focused on preserving,
restoring and enhancing the value of Venice's heritage. In 1999,
Davignon was a main founder of Friends of Europe, a private
lobbying organization for the European Union. Baron Daniel
Janssen helped him to establish it and the institute's
headquarters are located in the historic Bibliothèque Solvay,
right outside the European Parliament in Brussels. Together with
his business partner Count Maurice Lippens, Viscount Etienne
Davignon was involved in setting up SN Brussels Airlines, the
follow up of Sabena, which went bankrupt in 2001. Davignon also
played a role in the Lernout & Hauspie scandal, which centered
around a company that made by far the best voice recognition /
language translation software on the market (although it wasn't
perfect). According to one of the founders of the company, Jo
Lernout, it went wrong in 1999/2000 when L&H started to buy up
US companies who were working for the CIA and the Pentagon,
especially because the L&H software worked almost the same as
the NSA's Echelon spy system. The Wall Street Journal accused
L&H of fraudulent book keeping in August 2000 and the 2
founders, Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie, were arrested in April
2001. According to Business Wire, Davignon became a director of
Lernout & Hauspie in May 2001. Within 3 weeks, in early June, he
already resigned because Fortis, the bank he is a vice-chairman
of, is the largest creditor of L&H. Jo Lernout and Pol Hauspie
were released in early July of 2001 and L&H went broke in
October 2001, its technology sold to the US for a fraction of
its actual worth. Jo Lernout later claims that board members
must have been pressured by the US intelligence agencies to
destroy the company, because of all the incomprehensible
mistakes they made. In 2003, the European Policy Centre, in
cooperation with Notre Europe, released the papers 'Towards a
Constitution for European Citizens', 'Building a Larger Europe',
and 'Beyond Enlargement'. These papers were first discussed in
closed debate at Société Générale de Belgique with Etienne
Davignon and Jacques Delors (modern day
successor to Jean Monnet; chair Notre Europe since 1996)
chairing the first meeting, while both were key speakers at the
second. Davignon works with Delors at PlaNet Finance, an
institution which also counts the involvement of Pehr
Gyllenhammar (Chase; Lazard; Rothschild),
Michel David-Weill (owns Lazard),
Felix Rohatyn (Lazard), Hervé de
Carmoy (Almatis), Shimon Peres
(Israeli prime minister; Gorbachev's Green
Cross), and Michel Rocard (French
prime minister; Bohemian Grove camp Mandalay). Delors,
Davignon, Rocard, and members of the Green Cross, together with
Gerald Mestrallet (Suez board with
Davignon), sit on the membership board of Forum for a
Responsible Globalization. Delors and Davignon also know each
other from their involvement with The European Insitute; Delors
was the main founder while Davignon has been a board member.
Davignon was named 'European of the Year' in 2003 by European
Voice, an Economist Group publication focusing on European
affairs. In 2004, Davignon was one the witnesses of the
declaration of birth of the Belgian princess Louise. |
| Pierre Descamps |
1916-1992
|
Source(s): Added in 2008: Declaration of
an anonymous witness to the Belgian Judiciary, October 12, 199x,
(copy for Neufchateau cell): "Event: Witness her husband, who
has passed away, received an invitation for a party at a castle
in the neighborhood of ATH. Former minister DESCHAMPS [sic] and
Baron de BONVOISIN were present there. At a certain point
children of approximately 10 years of age were brought in. These
were then abused by the guests present. The husband of the
witness didn’t know this would happen and left the place because
he didn’t want to participate in it … Date of the event: About 4
years ago."
Born in ATH, a Belgian municipality located in the Walloon
province of Hainaut, in the West of the country. Mayor of
Aubechies and Beloeil, and senator for the liberal Party for
Freedom and Progression (PLP) 1961-1985. Chairman of the PVV-PLP
in 1969-1972. Held a top position (national chairman) when the
PRL was founded in the late 1970s, along with Jean Gol
(visitor of Les Atrebates and the Dolo with
ties to alleged Gang of Nijvel members and Nihoul; Jean Militis,
who was implicated in the 1970s (failed) right wing coup was a
MP for the PRL). Named to the honorary position of
Minister of State in 1973. Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as
published on PEHI website), p. 23: "In the past Patrick
[Haemers] used to be a good friend of a prominent PRL politician
(secretary of state at the moment). It might have been this
person who, after the arrest of Patrick, intervened at the
Belgian embassy or the consulate in Brazil. It would have been
about a certain DESCAMPS or DESCHAMPS." |
| Rene Dechef |
unknown
|
Source(s): BR.37.27.872/94: "Dechef
kept busy by following youngsters. Dechef tortured. He has to
give him fellatio until ejaculation in the cellar of his
building (Martini tower)... Delvaille was tied up and beaten. He
has been sodomized with a metal ruler. Marie-Jeanne (redhead)
was also a victim. Once another man participated."
Description of Dechef in BR.37.27.872/94: "Gamekeeper or
woodsman of Chateau Genval [a hotel] or La Hulpe [Chateau de La
Hulpe is owned by the Solvay family, including 227 hectares or
560 acres of woodland]." The only Rene Dechef (Augustin
"Rene" Dechef) that can easily be found, coincidentally is a
secretary of Front Democratique des Francophones (Democratic
Front for the French-speaking people) in the town of La Hulpe.
|
| Francoise Dehaye |
unknown
|
Source(s): X2 (her unnamed
husband was part of the abuse circle of Oliver Castiaux,
Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Bourlee)
Quality and innovation manager at Solvay. |
| Veronique Dehoux
|
b. 1951
|
Source(s): X2 (present at
parties where underage girls are abused)
Attorney and judge. Husband of the regionally well known
notary Guy Nasseaux. |
| Guy Delvoie |
b. 1947
|
Source(s): X2 (Present at sex
parties in a castle near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, together
with Jean-Paul Dumont, Baron de Bonvoisin and many others;
present at parties with underage girls in villas in Knokke
and in Hotel Cromwell, together with Etienne Davignon and
Leopold Lippens)
Judge in Brussels. Councillor at the Cour d'Appel de
Bruxelles (Court of Appeals in Brussels), according to Dutroux
X-Files. Identified as a press spokesman of the Brussels Court
of Appeals in 2001-2002. Identified as a member of the
Scientific Board of the International Institute for the Judicial
Power in 2003. Comite member of L'Union Internationale des
Magistrats, together with the head of the Scientific Board of
the International Institute for the Judicial Power. Chambers
chairman of the Court of Appeals in Brussels. Member of the High
Court of Belgium, together with Jean-Claude Van Espen. |
| Patrick Denis |
unknown
|
Source(s): X2
(Present at sex parties in a castle near Eindhoven in the
Netherlands, together with Jean-Paul Dumont, Baron de Bonvoisin
and many others; had sex with X2)
Police inspector in Nivelles since 1986, according to Dutroux
dossier. December 12, 1996, PV 118.380, 'Interview with X2;
Oliver Castiaux': "In 1987: diner with X2, Castiaux, Bayens
and de la Chevelarie (two judges). Bayens tells that during a
meal of Opus Dei at Castle Dongelberg the children gave blowjobs
to the guests from under the table. The castle has been put
under surveillance by Patrick Denis (police inspector Nivelles)
who is in the possession of the members list." |
| Charly De Pauw |
unknown
|
Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair (present at
parties where underage girls were abused, together with later
King Albert II); X3 (participated in extreme torture parties in
1950s and 1960s with Vanden Boeynants and royals)
Close friend and business partner of Paul Vanden Boeynants.
Vanden Boeynants had given him the contract to build the World
Trade Center complex in Brussels, which started De Pauw's career
as an international real estate baron. Together with Ado Blaton
he built Parc Savoy where Cercle des Nations was located and
people like Michel Nihoul came to party. Member of Cercle des
Nations, which was founded in 1969. Together with Ado Blaton he
was an investor in Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin's Promotion &
Distribution Générales (PDG) NV, which was literally connected
with the CEPIC headquarters through a corridor. In return for
their investments PDG created fake invoices for De Pauw, Blaton,
and others. PDG, together with King Albert II (then Prince),
Fortunato Israel (ran a prostitution ring), Vanden Boeynants and
Roger Boas (ran an arms company), was involved in the Eurosystem
Hospitalier deal in Saudi-Arabia, which blew up in 1979 due the
hundreds of millions of dollars used for briberies and
commissions. Business partner of Patrick and Alain Vastapane,
sons of Aldo Vastapane, another person whose career was
supported by Vanden Boeynants. |
| Jean Depretre |
unknown
|
Source(s): Maud Sarr (October 14,
1997, regular session of the Belgian Chamber of Representatives:
"The latter [Maud Sarr] testified that there existed video
recordings [of pedophilia during orgies], which were in the
possession of the lawyer Guy Francois. [Congressman/senator
Hugo] Coveliers stated: "This claim has never been
investigated." In an interview with VTM Maud Sarr gave the names
of Paul Vanden Boeynants and attorney-general Jaspar [prosecuted
the CCC bombers].... According to Gijsels, the names of
prosecutor of the king Jean Depretre and gendarme commandant
Léon François were also mentioned."); X2 (PV 118.380, December
12, 1996: "PR [prosecutor] Depretre was in love with X2"; PV
118.379, December 12, 1996: "Depretre sent love letters to X2.
He would give these letters to Castiaux [X2's pimp]")
Prosecutor of the king in Nivelles/Nijvel. On February 19,
1979, after having been under investigation for a year, the home
of Lydia Montaricourt was searched. She was a prostitute who at
the same time headed a Belgian prostitution network that she had
taken over from Fortunato Israel, who was in exactly the same
business, only on a more international scale. When Montaricourt
took over Israel's prostitution business in Belgium in 1977,
Israel burnt her address book in which the names of her clients
were listed. However, Montaricourt had already copied the names
in the book, and these names were found by the BOB in February
1979. As a result of this discovery, Fortunato Israel's home was
also searched on February 26, 1979, and was taken in for an
interrogation. 1998, Stef Janssens, 'De namen uit de doofpot',
p. 18 (Israel testimony): "Finally, I would like to confirm
that I have been a prostitute. I also confirm that I contacted
girls for important customers, but I was not paid by these
girls, not even because I had found them. Eurosystem Hospitalier
did pay me for my personal performance as a prostitute, and for
my public relations role which consisted of, as I already said,
to find girls who agreed to keep the prince [Albert] and his
consorts company abroad. I recognize that these girls were
prostitutes for the relations [business partners] of
Eurosystem... So it is true that girls or customers could call
me on that number... and that's what they effectively did. It is
true that I 'worked' on my own account and not exclusively for
Eurosystem.'" Since 1974, Eurosystem Hospitalier was
controlled by Societe Generale. In June 1976, Eurosystem signed
a 1 billion euro contract with Saudi-Arabia to build and exploit
hospitals for the NATO-trained Saudi National Guard. Roger Boas,
Paul Vanden Boeynants, Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin, Charly De
Pauw, Ado Blaton, and Prince Albert (later King Albert II) were
all involved in the Eurosystem Hospitalier deal, with mainly
Prince Abdullah on the Saudi side. Fortunato Israel and her
girls were called in to serve Prince Albert, his consorts and
the Saudi princes during their business trips. People on the
payroll of Adnan Khashoggi, a business friend of Paul Vanden
Boeynants, were also clients. On March 28, 1979, a month after
Montaricourt had been arrested and Israel interrogated,
substitute magistrate Jean Depretre demanded and got control
over the Montaricourt-Israel investigations. All investigations
into the prostitution network were shut down, Montaricourt was
sentenced to 13 months probation on May 2, 1979, and Israel was
fully acquitted from any charges. Examining magistrate
Schellekens explained: "This dossier was worked through
extraordinarily quickly. In my whole career as examining
magistrate I have never seen this. By now it has been about 40
years -first as a lawyer followed by magistrate- that I am
involved in judicial business and I am flabbergasted when I see
this data." Report of the Gang Commission, report section,
p. 31: "It was Mr. Depretre who, as first substitute,
dismissed the dossier Fortunato Israel. The commission judges
that the dossiers in question did not receive a normal
treatment. It does not agree with the position of the then first
substitute Depretre that the non-prosecution of Fortunato Israel
in these circumstances was a responsible decision." The BOB
officers who led the investigation and their whole investigating
cell were persecuted right after Depretre had taken control of
the Montaricourt-Israel cases. Israel was on the payroll of
Roger Boas, the owner of the ASCO factory where X1 said snuff
movies with children were filmed. Israel also acted as the
mistress of Boas. Had some involvement in the Pinon dossier,
which was about accusations against a number of important men
attending orgies where minors where also abused. Paul Vanden
Boeynants, General Beaurir, Prince Albert, Charly De Pauw and
Ado Blaton were the accused. According to Stef Janssens in his
1998 book 'De namen uit de doofpot', p. 84-85: "The 'pink
ballets' affair covers many dossiers. The Pinon case is the most
well-known, but only consists of lies, half truths and well
known names from other real dossiers. In reality this was an
insignificant divorce dossier that was used by the extreme-right
as blackmail dossier against the political institutions...
Benoit de Bonvoisin walked with his blackmail dossier the Tour
of Belgium to complicate and contaminate the important judicial
investigations. Albert Raes, the head of State Security, was
linked to the Pinon Dossier. This was mixed in with a number of
prominent names from the Fortunato Israel dossiers, so that
those in the know understood that the authors of the Pinon
dossier knew about the situations of the late 1970s. What could
produce some additional pressure on the blackmail kettle,
because this raised the suspicion by those in the know that de
Bonvoisin kept the dossier as a joker behind his hand. The
Nivelles prosecutor Depretre, who hid the Pinon dossier in his
suitcase, at the time was not the designated abuse substitute of
the Eurosystem-Montaricourt-Fortunato dossiers by coincidence.
De Bonvoisin's primary reason was to settle the score with State
Security... The only really interesting dossier is that of
Montaricourt and Fortunato Israel and leading to Eurosystem
Hospitalier." Report of the Gang Commission, report, p. 31:
"Furthermore, it has been the case that prosecutor Depretre
at the very least provoked an exaggerated interest in the Pinon
case by handling this dossier in a mysterious way and keeping it
in a locked vault on his desk." However, nobody seems to be
entirely sure what to make of the Pinon affair. Although it
indeed appears to have been used by the extreme-right as a
blackmail dossier, the Pinon file does seem to have been
extremely sensitive. Prosecutor of the king in the investigation
into the Gang of Nijvel in the mid-1980s. Exercised a large
amount of influence on examining magistrate Jean-Marie
Schlicker. Commandant Duterme, who headed a team of BOB
investigators that were looking into the Gang of Nijvel since
1984, was his right hand man. Rejected all evidence that
indicated political motives of the Gang of Nijvel. Requested to
gendarme general Robert "Bob" Bernaert, a good friend of general
Fernand Beaurir, that BOB officer Gerard Bihay and his
colleagues, who had written a report that made a strong case for
high level involvement in the Gang of Nijvel, were demoted to
the traffic section of the BOB. Publicly accused examining
magistrate Jean-Marie Schlicker of only being interested in the
fascist links to the Gang of Nijvel because of his Jewish
background. When Schlicker pushed through in 1985, not only did
Depretre everything he could to stop him, Schlicker's wife and
kids were also threatened. In late 1985, Depretre became
determined to prove that the Borains, a reasonably insignificant
gang of criminals, were behind the Gang of Nijvel terror
campaign. The Borains were acquitted from all charges in 1988,
after a ballistics report turned up that proved their innocence.
This report had been hidden away by Depretre. Around the same
time, the Court of Cassation removed Depretre from the Gang of
Nijvel investigation, because he was considered not objective
enough. However, Depretre had slowed down the investigation
enough in the first few crucial years that in the period after
that it turned out to be impossible to find the real
perpetrators of the Gang of Nijvel terror campaign. After WNP
leader Paul Latinus (Nazi; recruited by the
DIA in 1967, age 17; trained by NATO; reserve lieutenant with
the Air Force; paid informant of State Security; recruited as an
intelligence agent by PIO in 1977; recommended everywhere by the
CEPIC leadership; member Front de la Jeunesse; founder Westland
New Post (WNP) in 1981; named as one of the leaders of Group G;
suicided in 1984) had been suicided in 1984, Depretre
grabbed his dossier and locked it away in his personal file
cabinet. On February 13, 1990, a prostitute named Maud Sarr
stated on VTM that she had witnessed how Paul Vanden Boeynants,
Jean Depretre, Commandant Francois (invited
by the US Army's CID in 1969; educated by the DEA; received by
President Nixon; secretary of the International Drug Enforcement
Association; founded the gendarmerie's National Bureau for Drugs
(NBD) in the 1972-1975 period with Paul "VdB" Vanden Boeynants
and CIA support, and became the NBD's initial head; always
present at the border when a new large shipment of marihuana and
cocaine of VdB's company was smuggled into Belgium; leading
member of the subversive and fascist Group G, together with DEA
agent Frank Eaton; provided the CIA chief in Belgium with
intelligence about leftists and other dissident groups; accused
in 1990 by prostitute Maud Sarr of involvement in orgies with
minors, together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and Jean Depretre
(both accused by other sources as well); one of his successors
at the NBD, general Beaurir was also accused of pedophilia and
was also part of the CEPIC circle) and others had
participated in orgies with minors. Within a week, however, it
turned out that the VTM journalist in question had paid Sarr for
these alleged revelations. She also withdrew her allegations
during police interviews. Sarr had already turned up during the
investigation into Montaricourt. On March 19, 1979, Sarr stated
that she worked as a prostitute for Montaricourt and spoke about
"little Charles", a boy below 16 years of age that was also used
in the prostitution network. At this time, Sarr was in jail for
lying under oath. Her claims and those about "little Charles"
were never investigated. In 1992, Sarr made several other
statements to investigators about orgies with minors which soon
turned out to be half truths at best. Jean Depretre still was
the king's prosecutor in Nijvel/Nivelles in the late 1990s, but
has retired in the mean time. |
| Charles De Selliers De
Moranville |
unknown
|
Source(s): This name appears in PV
103.204/97, although how or why is not discussed in the summary,
besides: "While doing work at Rue de Neufchâtel 62 in St. Gilles
[Brussels] the witness noticed the existence of an almost
finished subterranean bunker (in 01/96). A tunnel was concealed
behind one of the walls. He was surprised by a conversation in
which a lady said "the children will be well here."; According
to an anonymous internet claim, there were independent
accusations in 2003 that Charles was an organizer of sex parties
with underaged children; this obscure but very influential
family is involved with so many alleged child abusers that it
has been included here.
It's not entirely clear who this Charles De Selliers De
Moranville is, but the most likely Charles, together with his
wife, is a member of Carnet Mondain, "the Yearbook of
distinguished Belgian families", together with Georges de
Kerchove d'Exaerde (accused of trafficking
in drugs and children), Baron Guibert de Viron
(a family member is accused of trafficking
in drugs and children, and is married into the de Caters family
who has also been accused), Jacques G. Jonet
(accused of covering up the Pinon Affair;
once Otto von Habsburg's political secretary; through his
involvement with Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite Europeenne he
came at CEPIC and PDG headquarters), Count Henri d'Udekem
d'Acoz (family married into the royal
family and are close to the Knights of Malta), Countess
Rodolphe d'Ursel (a family member is
accused of being part of the abuse network of Baron de
Bonvoisin, to whom this family is close). Almost
certainly this Charles is an attorney in Brussels (where the
bunker was), just like Georges de Kerchove d'Exaerde and Jacques
G. Jonet.
There also was a Charles De Selliers De Moranville who died
in 1998 and was a Jesuit.
Some other (very influential) family members:
In 1952, under the guidance of Professor Firmin Oulès and
Philippe de Selliers de Moranville, head of the United Nations
Economic Commission for Europe's Steel Division, Henri Rieben
defended his thesis on "From agreements of metalwork masters to
the Schuman Plan." Henri Rieben would meet up with Jean Monnet,
a founding member of Cercle Pinay, in 1955, and become a
co-founder of Monnet's Action Committee for the United States of
Europe. Monnet's earlier banking partner, George Murnane of
Monnet & Murnane, was the main US representative of the Solvays
(family suspected of Satanic practices)
and Boëls (family member accused of
trafficking in drugs and children).
Chevalier Guy De Selliers De Moranville, born in 1952, was
reelected as a director of Solvay SA in 2005 (the Selliers De
Moranville family is said to have intermarried with the
Solvays). Guy also was first deputy vice president of the
Banking Department of the European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD). In 2001, he was appointed to the
International Advisory Council of Fortis with Etienne Davignon
(accused of child abuse) as chairman
and with Maurice Lippens (three members of
the family accused of hideous child torture) also
attending the meetings of this council. Involved with the
GreenFacts Foundation, just as Jacques De Selliers De
Moranville.
Chevalier Alexandre De Selliers De Moranville acted as a
votecounter at the Fortis SA/NV shareholders meeting of May 25,
2005. In this function he was one of four persons mentioned who
managed the event. Maurice Lippens was chairman of the meeting.
Frédéric De Selliers De Moranville was a member of Cercle de
Lorraine and an executive vice president of Banque Privée Edmond
de Rothschild - Genève in 2006.
Philippe De Selliers De Moranville was a member of Cercle de
Lorraine and vice president of Coca-Cola Enterprises Belgium in
2006.
A Barbara de Selliers de Moranville co-organized a huge party
for 3500 children in the garden of Countess François
d'Ansembourg. This was part of the Belgian Kids Foundation for
Pediatric Research. The support committee of this foundation,
located at the Queen Fabiola Children's Hospital, includes
Countess Maurice Lippens (three members of
the family accused of hideous child torture, including Maurice),
and is presided over by Jean-Pierre de Launoit
(accused of trafficking in drugs and
children). Patron of the committee is princess Astrid.
|
| Dr. Luc De Schrijver
|
b. 1946
|
Source(s): X1 (Said she had been raped
by De Schrijver in the early 1980s and that he was involved in
abuse parties at the UCO complex in Gent. This was a different
crowd than those involved in the hunts. De Schrijver co-signed
the death certificate of Veronique Dubrulle in 1983, who
allegedly died of cancer. X1 claimed Veronique was tortured and
murdered by the network. Drew some suspicion from De Baets and
team, because he seemed out of his field of expertise when
signing Veronique Dubrulle's death certificate. Veronique's body
was never exhumed and the case was closed within months.)
Neuropathist at St-Vincent hospital in Gent in the 1980s.
|
| Dr. Luc De Waele |
b. 1945
|
Source(s): X1 (Said she witnessed De
Waele rape 7-8 year old girls and was involved in abuse parties
at the UCO complex in Gent. This was a different crowd than
those involved in the hunts. De Waele co-signed the death
certificate of Veronique Dubrulle in 1983, who allegedly died of
cancer. X1 claimed Veronique was tortured and murdered by the
network. Drew some suspicion from De Baets and team, because he
seemed out of his field of expertise when signing Veronique
Dubrulle's death certificate. Veronique's body was never exhumed
and the case was closed within months. X1 claimed to have first
met De Waele at a private party in the Decascoop of the Bert
family in the early 1980s. X1, Clo, a Natasha and two other
little girls were present at this private party)
Graduated as a Medical Doctor at the University of Leuven and
Ghent (Belgium) in July 1971 (study of medicine takes 7 years in
Belgium). Became a Board Certified Neurological Surgeon in
February 1977. Heads the department of Neurological Surgery of
A.Z. St. Lucas in Ghent since 1982. Has been to the United
States more than 65 times. Also regularly traveled to Japan and
a number of other countries to work with and learn from the top
experts in neurosurgery. Member of the Belgian Professional
Society of Neurological Surgery, the Congress of Neurological
surgeons (USA), the Societe de Neurochirurgie de Langue
Française, the Dutch Skull Base Society and the European Skull
Base Society (ESBA). Co-Director of the International
Neurosurgery Education Foundation (USA). |
| Michel Dewolf |
unknown
|
Source(s): Jacques Thoma
(PSC-youth treasurer who said Dewolf and Philippe Sala (a
lawyer) were initiating him into Opus Dei, which they considered
the absolute top, first through group sex and later through a
blood ritual)
Member of the PSC-Youth party of Paul Vanden Boeynants,
according to the relevant PV. |
| Robert De Wolf |
unknown
|
Source(s): X1 (present with Tony,
Nihoul, Bouty, Leopold Lippens, Vander Elst, the "apparent"
owner of Castle Kattenhof, and Joost Bert at the murder of
Katrien de Cuyper)
According to the administrator of the
X1 dossier forums, "Robert" and "De Wolf" are not the same
person. This is a mistake made in the Neufchateau summary
document (I remember having been really unsure about adding
this. Did it anyway, because nothing could be found on a "Robert
De Wolf"). These unknown men were involved in the Castle
Kattenhof affair.
X1 described him as a close associate of Paul Vanden
Boeynants. |
| Serge Donners |
unknown
|
Source(s): X1 (present at some of the ASCO
factory tortures, probably taking care of the filming of these
events)
July 31, 2007, important correction from the administrator of
the X1dossier forums (translated from Dutch): "The above
information is based on a working document that can be found on
the internet; sometimes these summaries contain mistakes. Also
here something is wrong: in reality Werner Donners is meant here
and not Serge Donners. According to the investigative data,
Serge Donners has been involved in incriminating sexual affairs
but not related to what Regina Louf told about what happened in
the ASCO-factory. Werner Donners once was the boss of Tony in
the publicity firm Tony worked. Werner Donners has died several
years ago. At the time, Tony was a partner in a firm in which
two sons of Werner Donners were involved, Serge and Thierry. See
the data below:"
Involved with Cinema Publicitaire Belge, a production
company, together with family member Werner. Werner and Serge
were good friends of Paul Vanden Boeynants. |
| Jacques Dubrulle
|
b. 1942
|
Source(s): X1 (father of Veronique,
who was murdered by the network)
Head of Daska Films with his partner Jean Daskalides back in
the 1970s. Former administrator of Decatron NV, a company
founded in 1981 by the Bert family (accused of child abuse by
X1) which focused on the development and building of movie
theaters. Chairman and patron of the International Film Festival
of Flanders, located in Gent. Retired in 2005. Father of
Veronique, who officially died from cancer in 1983. X1
recognized Veronique from photos, and accurately described her
age and time of her death. However, X1 claimed Veronique was
tortured to death by Tony, Nihoul, Bouty, a member of the Bert
family (run movie theaters) and others. Dubrulle participated in
this network. X1 claimed that she had slept with at least one of
the two specialists who signed Veronique's death certificate.
However, Veronique's body was never dug up and her case was
closed in early 1997. Shortly after the press first mentioned
the X-dossiers in January 1997, detectives found out that Tony,
X1's former pimp, called up Dubrulle three times. Further
research by the authors of the 1999 book 'The X-dossiers'
indicated that both men were good friends. |
| Jean-Paul Dumont |
b. 1952
|
Source(s): X1 (violent abuser who went to
the ASCO factory); X2 (Present at sex parties in a castle near
Eindhoven in the Netherlands, together with Baron de Bonvoisin
and many others); associated with Jacques Thoma, who said Dumont
and friends were initiating him into Opus Dei, which they
considered the absolute top, first through group sex and later
through a blood ritual (claimed that Dumont was involved in
money laundering for the PSC through German casinos); close to
Nihoul
One of the "Golden Boys" of the PSC in the 1970s. Chairman of
PSC-Youth, where he is said to have helped introduce the
treasurer, Jacques Thoma, first into group sex parties and later
into a clear cut Satanic cult. Thoma was told these were Opus
Dei initiations. Member of the CEPIC Council, the fascist branch
of the PSC party headed by Baron de Bonvoisin (Opus Dei) and
Paul Vanden Boeynants (Opus Dei). Knew Philippe Cryns, the pimp
of underaged children who organized sex parties at the Mirano.
In the late 1980s, he shared an office with Didier De Quevy,
attorney for Alexis Alewaeters in 1986 (briefly sent to jail for
the Mirano affair, together with Phillipe Cryns, although the
pedophilia aspects were ignored) and Marc Dutroux in 1989.
Worked closely with Philippe Deleuze, a close friend of Nihoul;
and Julien Pierre, the lawyer of Dutroux from 1996 until he was
fired in January 2003. Nihoul organized the political campaigns
of Dumont in the late 1980s. They were good friends and together
with Vanden Boeynants he had been seen regularly at a warehouse
of Nihoul in the Havenlaan in Brussels. PV 42.665, October 14,
1996 (testimony of Guy Einsweiller or Eschweiler):
"Remembers Nihoul (fish trade near the PAVAN transport
enterprise where he works. 108/11O Avenue du Port 1000,
Brussels). During a deal, he saw Dumont drinking a glass with
Nihoul. Sometimes saw Nihoul at the restaurant Mayflower in
Koekelberg... declared to have regularly seen Dumont and Vanden
Boeynants in the private area of the fish and crustacean
enterprise that he exploited. [early 1990s]" Dumont was a
good friend of police commissioner Georges Marnette, who did
everything he could to torpedo the X-Dossier investigation.
Dumont handled some business for Roger Boas of ASCO with
Bombardier in Canada. Clients of Dumont have included such
notorious figures as Francis Dossogne, Madani Bouhouche, Eric
Lammers, Paul Latinus and Patrick Haemers. Dumont has acted as a
legal counsel to Baron de Bonvoisin. Lawyer of Jean Paul
Raemaekers, the convicted swindler and violent paedophile who
was responsible for the disinformation that bodies of Dutroux's
victims were buried in Jumet. During prison interviews,
Raemaekers talked about Jean-Paul Dumont having been the lawyer
of Jacques Grafe, the brother of politician Jean-Pierre Grafe
(accused several times of pedophilia; Raemaekers claimed
(probably invented) that JP Grafe was protecting his paedophile
cell mate), who ended up in prison on charges of pedophilia.
Raemaekers also named some other paedophile Dumont allegedly was
involved with. Ended up in a scandal in July 1995, which ended
his political career. Until then, he was headed for a top
position in the PSC and a cabinet post. |
| Marc Dutroux |
b. 1956
|
Source(s): X1 (apparently at parties since
the early 1980s, but not prominent and largely on the outside);
convicted paedophile who worked closely with Nihoul [apparently
since 1995] in kidnapping girls (this last claim is not
official, but appears the only possibility when looking at many
testimonies)
Born in Belgian Congo in 1956. Emigrated back to Belgium with
his mother in 1960. Troublesome youth, but managed to get an
education as electrician. Divorced his wife in 1983 after she
accused him of abuse. Arrested in February 1986 and convicted in
November 1988 for kidnapping, photographing, torturing, and
raping 5 girls between the age of 11 and 19. Also accused of
torturing an older woman by putting a razor in her vagina to
force her to give him money. Michelle Martin, his girlfriend
with whom he already had an affair during his previous marriage,
was considered an accomplice. Initially, they only received 3
years in prison for committing these crimes, the reason being
that they appeared before a correctional court with professional
magistrates, instead of a public court in which a body of
citizens co-decides what the sentence will be. Dutroux still
appealed, but now was sentenced to 13,5 years in prison. Studied
math, physics, electricity and anesthetics while in jail.
Married Michelle Martin in 1989 while both were in prison. They
would get three sons in total. On April 6, 1992, PSC Minister of
Justice Melchior Wathelet accepted a probationary release of
Dutroux from prison. A lot of people within the system did not
agree with this decision, because Dutroux was known as
manipulative psychopath devoid of any morals. It also stung
these critics that Dutroux never admitted to his crimes, even
though every single one of his victims identified him as the
perpetrator. However, in Belgium it is normal that well-behaving
convicts only serve about a third of their already relative low
sentences due to the 1888 Law of Lejeune. After his release,
Dutroux was able to convince a psychiatrist that his prison
sentence had made him at least in part mentally unable to work,
resulting in a government pension of about 800 euro per month.
On paper he also separated from his wife who went to live in one
of his other houses, together with their children. She also
received about 800 euro per month. To the victims Dutroux had to
pay about 20,000 euros. He also received an unusually large
amount of sleeping pills and sedatives from his doctor, which he
would later use to quiet the girls he abducted. Came to own
seven houses, most of them vacant, and used three of them to
rape and torture the girls he kidnapped. In his house in
Marcinelle, near Charleroi (Hainaut), where he lived most of the
time, he started to construct a concealed dungeon in the
basement, hidden behind a massive concrete door disguised behind
a closet . In early 1993, the unemployed Claude Thirault, who
rented one of Dutroux's homes, was hired by Dutroux as a
handyman. Dutroux asked this person to install water drains
beneath one of his newly-bought houses. Although Thirault
thought that this was a bit unusual, he didn't mind doing it. A
few days into the job, two girls walked past the two men
working. Dutroux said to Thirault: "If you want to kidnap
them, you'll make 150,000 franks [about 4000 euro]."
Dutroux went on to tell Thirault what the best approach would
be: "Grab them from behind, put a sedative drug under their
nose, pull them into the car, and lock the doors."
Thirault, an occasional police informant, told this story to the
police in July 1993, and as a result Dutroux's houses were
searched months later, in December, the official reason being
that he was suspected in a theft case. The police officers
noticed Dutroux's modified basement, but did not find any girls.
Dutroux's houses were searched again in June 1994 and it seemed
that he had stopped working on modifying his basement. Dutroux
abused the Slovakian Eva Mackova in Sars-la-Buissière in July
1994. In June 1995, Dutroux was sued for having illegally
widened an opening to his basement to be able to put an airtube
in. Got to know Michel Lelièvre in late 1994 (account differ;
might be 1995; X1 said they already knew each other in the early
1980s). Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo were kidnapped by
Dutroux on June 24, 1995. In reaction to the missing girls,
Thirault claimed that he went back to the police in late June
1995 to remind them of Dutroux's talk about kidnapping girls and
the modifications to his basement. The police came back to
Thirault a few days later and asked if he had some more solid
evidence, apparently needed if the houses of Dutroux, a
convicted child abuser, were to be searched again. Although they
confirmed what he reported, the police claimed that Thirault
spoke to them much later, in October 1995, and only at their own
initiative. According to attorney general Velu from the office
of cassation, both the police and Thirault were wrong. This
official claimed that two, seemingly anonymous, occasional
informants recommended that the police take a look at the house
of Dutroux on August 10, 1995, about six weeks after Julie and
Melissa were kidnapped. In any case, on this date a group of
detectives began monitoring Dutroux under the code name
Operation Othello. Earlier, on June 24, investigating judge
Martine Doutrewe became head of the 'Julie and Melissa cell',
tasked with finding the missing girls. Unfortunately for the
girls, Doutrewe left for a vacation in Italy within days of
being assigned to this post and would not return until early
August. No other permanent investigating judge was appointed in
her place which significantly impacted the efficiency of the
entire investigation. On September 4, Dutroux's mother, who
advised against the earlier release of her son, anonymously
informed the police that the neighbors of Dutroux were very
suspicious about his activities. Windows were blacked out,
Dutroux was always making noise in the basement, the garden was
filled with used car tires and two girls "of 16 or 18 years old"
had recently been seen in Dutroux's garden. These girls had
never been seen during daylight. This information somehow didn't
make it to the to investigating team that was working on
Dutroux. In the late summer, the BOB (Belgian FBI) seemed to
lose interest in the case and informed the parents of Julie and
Melissa that the girls were most likely dead. However, the
parents kept looking for their children with support of the
recently-established Marc et Corinne Foundation and made sure
that the story of the missing girls remained quite prominent.
Bernard Weinstein and Dutroux were responsible for stealing a
truck on September 25, 1995, which was hidden in a storage
building rented by Dutroux. Gerard Pinon, a police informant,
was the real owner of the storage building. He informed
inspector Georges Zicot that Dutroux and Weinstein had a stolen
truck that was located in his storage and that Dutroux seemed to
be running a small gang of car thieves. Zicot did nothing,
allegedly waiting for the truck to be picked up again. In the
meantime, in November 1995, a Gendarme officer from Charleroi
reported that Dutroux was the kidnapper of Julie and Melissa. He
claimed that this information had been gathered from four
different sources. Nothing was done with this information.
Around the time Weinstein went missing and was later found five
meters underground in the backyard of Michele Martin, Dutroux's
girlfriend, beneath the bodies of Julie en Melissa. On December
6, 1995, Dutroux was arrested for having been involved in
stealing the truck and kidnapping and torturing three teenagers
he suspected of having restolen the truck. Under the leadership
of René Michaux, Dutroux's houses were searched on December 13,
1995 and again on December 19, 1995. One or more children were
heard crying by Michaux and the locksmith accompanying him. They
went looking in the basement, which clearly had a whole recently
modified section, but couldn't find anything, leading michaux to
conclude that the voices must have come from outside. Videos
were confiscated, which showed Dutroux working on his basement.
He ended up in jail for three months for his role in the stolen
truck affair. By the time he came out, Julie and Melissa had
died. In late December 1995, three young burglars broke in into
Dutroux's home and stole his computer and several videotapes.
One of them heard a sound coming from the basement, which this
person thought was a door closing, and they scrammed. It later
turned out that they unfortunately put in a new harddisk in
Dutroux's computer and taped cartoons for their children over
the unknown content of Dutroux's tapes. Operation Othello was
shut down in January 1996, because Dutroux was in jail. It was
not reactivated after he came out. Released early on March 20,
1996 for "humanitarian reasons"; his wife was about to have a
baby. Sabine Dardenne was kidnapped by Dutroux on May 28, 1996.
She was locked in Dutroux's basement and was told that if she
began screaming for help, the "really bad men will come."
Raped here multiple times, took pictures and made videos of
that. Started depositing 130,000 franks in total in one of his
bank accounts on May 31, 1996. Dutroux abused the Slovakian girl
Yancka Mackova from July 22 to August 1, 1996. Dutroux kidnapped
Laetitia Delhez on August 9, 1996 in a small district called
Neufchateau (Luxemburg province), near the border of France and
Luxemburg, in Bertrix. After the report that Laetitia was
kidnapped, a number of witnesses came forward. Two of them had
seen an old white van driving around Bertrix the day Laetitia
disappeared. In one of these two cases a student was afraid the
driver of the van was planning to steal his bike. As luck would
have it, the 22-year-old was an autofreak and reported to the
police the exact type of van and a good chunk of its license
plate, as the first three letters reminded him of the name of
his sister. In no time Dutroux's name, a known paedophile,
rolled out of the computer. Connerotte, the examining magistrate
put on the Dutroux case by Michel Bourlet, immediately ordered
the gendarmerie to arrest of Dutroux, Michel Lelievre and
Michelle Martin, and to search all their houses (owned by
Dutroux). The suspects were arrested on August 13, but somehow
the gendarme officers, headed by Rene Michaux of Operation
Othello, were unable to find the girls. Three days later, in
part after revelations from Lelievre, Dutroux pointed the
detectives to one of his houses, in which Sabine and Laetitia
were kept. It turned out that the girls had already been
conditioned to see Dutroux as their master. Interestingly, even
though an earlier research team in December 1995 decided to
ignore the supposedly very faint cries they heard (and somehow
concluded they must have come from outside), Laetitia, after her
release, claimed that from her dungeon in the basement she was
able to hear the voices of the investigators upstairs when they
searched the house on the day of Dutroux's arrest. Why these
Gendarmes were not interested in turning the basement upside
down, even more so after children were heard, remains a mystery.
About 300 to 400 videos were found in the apartments of Dutroux
(reports on the amount of videos found actually differ). Dutroux
could be seen raping children on these videos who clearly
weren't Laetitia, Sabine, Julie, Melissa, An, or Eefje. Who they
were remains unknown. Nihoul was arrested on August 16, and it
later turned that he too had been spotted in Bertrix with
Dutroux at the time of Laetitia's kidnapping (Nihoul was never
charged, nor prosecuted for this though). On August 17, after
hints from Dutroux, the bodies of Julie and Melissa, and Bernard
Weinstein were found in the gardens of one of Dutroux's houses.
A day later Dutroux and Lelievre confessed that they were
responsible for kidnapping An and Eefje. The bodies of An and
Eefje were found on September 3, and buried on land owned by
Weinstein. Connerotte was kicked off the case in October and
Nihoul was officially released on January 20, 1997. Dutroux
often claimed that Nihoul was a contact of his and a key player
in big international trafficking networks. Unknown men had
visited Dutroux while he had girls in his house. One of these
men is suspected to have been Nihoul. On April 23, 1998, Dutroux
somehow managed to overpower his two (armed) Gendarme guards and
escape from Neufchateau. He was caught 3 hours later.
Coincidentally, during these hours the pimp of X1 confirmed that
he had sex with X1 since she was 12. Besides De Morgen, no paper
did a prominent report on this breakthrough in the X1 case.
Dutroux was sentenced to life in jail and TBS in June 2004. To
investigators and even to the victims Dutroux always promoted
himself as the victim of an unfair world. He is generally
considered the ultimate psychopath. It took 7 years to round up
the case against Dutroux and his associates. |
| Pierre Ferbus |
b. 1942
|
Source(s): Dutroux dossier, PV 100.130,
December 2, 1996: "Sectarian or satanic activities at
the Valmont castle in Merbes-Le-Chateau. Owner of the chateau =
Ferbus Pierre (07/01/42). Homosexual - banker BBL. Di Rupo and
Graffe would have been seen at these parties. A victim described
a place during a television debate - the description looked like
the Valmont castle. Residents of the chateau: Isaert Christian
(10/03/50) - gardener[;] Beroudiaux Dominique (30/04/54)[;]
Bosquion David (02/10/75). Three entrances to the castle but two
have been blocked. A report of the Police of Lobbes [nearby
town, to the north] get the same information concerning Graffe
Jean-Pierre. In the property there supposedly is a cross of 5
meters across. It would be about satanism. A rapport of the BSR
[Special Investigations Unit of the Gendarmerie] in Thuin
[another nearby town] contains approaching information.";
Although the Olivier Trusgnach, Laurent V. and Johan P., and
Raemaekers cases against Di Rupo and Grafe clearly were part of
a disinformation scheme by police commissioner Georges Marnette
and associates against the team of De Baets and the Belgian
public, it is known that both Grafe and Di Rupo were homosexuals
who had sex with young prostitutes anywhere from 16 years and
up. In case of Grafe, he also has several accusations against
him that he had sex with 13 year olds.
Bought Chateau de la Roquette in Fontaine-Valmont in the
district Merbes-Le-Chateau in 1976. The Dutroux X-Files talk
about "Chateau Valmont near Merbes Le Chateau". That's
confusing as there is a Chateau de Valmont in France. However,
the Dutroux X-Files make it clear that Pierre Ferbus is the
owner of this castle and that it is located in Belgium. Said to
be a homosexual and former banker at Banque Bruxelles Lambert,
which for over a century was the major Rothschild bank in
Belgium and has numerous people on its board who have been
accused of child abuse. |
| Michel Forgeot
|
b. 1949
|
Source(s): Nathalie W.
(raped when she was 10-12 years old); PV 116.166, December 12,
1996, police interview with Claude "Max" van Keerbergen
(driver-valet parking attendant of Dolores Bara, according to PV
150.115/97; introduced to the Dolo by Nihoul's friend Doudou):
"During a conversation between Dolo [Dolores Bara], Nihoul,
Doudou, Forgeot and Jonasz he heard Dolo say: "It is despicable
to do that with children"." & 2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier
Nihoul', p. 126: "[Max] even says that 'Nihoul has learned to
kidnap children, to earn money'. He even tried it in the Dolo,
but Forgeot said: 'That's not the way you do that'."; 2004,
Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 122 (PV A10988):
"Dutroux might not have come to the Dolo, but they did know his
technique to render girls unconscious and then rape them. A
(grown-up) girl testified about this. She remembers to have
received a drink from Dolores Bara and that she was threatened
by Forgeot and Rodel. She later woke up somewhere else, naked.
She had a burn on her arm. She remembers to have been grabbed by
the shoulders and that she was raped by Forgeot..."
Frenchman. Together with Dolores Bara, owner and manager of
the private sex club Les Atrebates from 1975 until it was closed
by the police in 1983. Some of the visitors of Les Atrebates
were Michel Nihoul (since 1981), Frans Reyniers
(Brussels police commissioner; assisted in
the Gang of Nijvel investigation; later convicted criminal; went
to the Jonathan), Georges Marnette
(Brussels police commissioner; good friend of Jean-Paul Dumont,
the former CEPIC lawyer who has been accused of serious child
abuse and was a friend of Nihoul; interrogated WNP Nazi
terrorists Paul Latinus, Eric Lammers and Marcel Barbier in late
1983; recruited Paul Latinus as an informant just before he
died; denied the existence of the Pinon affair videos, which
turned out to be a lie; became notorious for his disinformation
campaign during the Dutroux-Nihoul investigation), Guy
Jadot (informant of Reyniers and Marnette),
Guy Collignon (chief investigator in the
Christine Van Hees murder who said to her brother that the
investigation was gravitating towards high level people, that he
would not pursue these leads and that he would soon be promoted
because of that), Claude Leroy
(judge and chef-de-cabinet of minister of justice Jean Gol; his
wife had some dealings with Jean Bultot; gave classified
information to the mafia), Jean Gol
(chairman PRL 1979-1981; vice prime minister 1981-1988; minister
of justice 1981-1988; X2 attended a meeting at the Hilton
between Madani Bouhouche's spouse (husband of an alleged
abuser), Paul Vanden Boeynants (alleged abuser), Wilfried
Martens (alleged abuser), Guy Delvoie (alleged abuser who
partied with Lippens and Davignon), Nihoul (alleged abuser) and
Jean Gol; minister of foreign trade in 1985; chairman Liberal
Party; member European Parliament; Freemason), Jacques
Neerinck (substitute judge and notary),
Leon Defosset (mayor of Etterbeek),
Robert Darville (friend of Michel Nihoul;
acted as a gunsmith and delivered explosives to the Haemers
gang, which kidnapped Vanden Boeynants in 1989; regularly
visited the company Logitel, just as Achille Haemers, Michel
Nihoul and where Marc Dutroux and Michele Martin have also been
seen. The witnesses told that some of the men there were talking
about importing "young white and brown horses" from eastern
Europe by plane, but after the Dutroux affair thought they had
been talking about children. The witness, Rita Vetsuypens, found
out she was married to a paedophile who was involved with these
people), Michel Vander Elst, Jean-Louis Delamotte
(business partner of Nihoul; incorporated
Achats Services Commerces, which was tied to the white
Mercedesses affair from which children were photographed;
Nihoul, Bernard Weinstein, Michel Lelievre and Michele Martin
(not Dutroux) had all been spotted on a regular basis in the
immediate surroundings of this company), Eddy Merckx
(most famous and successful road racing
cyclist of Belgium; awarded a barony) and some people
from NATO (PV 119.249). Forgeot and Bara set up The Dolo in
1987, and took much of the former clientele of Les Atrebates
with them. Among them was Michel Nihoul, who was to be informed
if problems arose with local authorities. Police commissioners
Frans Reyniers, Georges Marnette, Albert Toch and Christian
Eveillard (police commissioner of Etterbeek
who protected The Dolo; his brother, Pierre, was head of the
Security Service of the European Commission) went there.
Some other visitors were Guy Collignon
(chief investigator in the Christine Van Hees murder who said to
her brother that the investigation was gravitating towards high
level people, that he would not pursue these leads and that he
would soon be promoted because of that), Leon Defosset
(mayor of Etterbeek), Achile Haemers
(father of well-known gang leader),
Michel Vander Elst (lawyer; accused of
child torture by X1; worked with the Haemers gang in kidnapping
Vanden Boeynants; provided a fake alibi for Nihoul in 1996),
Daniel Blondin (lawyer), Henri
Tombeur (alleged paedophile), Rene
Rodel (friend of Nihoul and Forgeot;
suspected of trade in black girls, some underaged, used for the
prostitution; main shareholder in travel agency Azur Evasion,
which specialized in Thailand; in frequent contact with
Jean-Marie Rihoux of Europe Love Travel, which arranges
marriages with Thai girls, and a person who owned a bar in
Thailand), Jacques Genevois (once a
suspect in Loubna case; visited the Dolo in 1988; also met
Nihoul in Le Perroquet), and Edouard Vanhuynegem
(generally known as "Doudou"; lawyer and
criminologist who often went to the Dolo; according to Claude
"Max" Vankeerbergen, the former driver of Dolores Bara (2004,
Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 125; PV 116.166,
December 19, 1996): "According to
Max, Doudou was a contact of an ex-teacher of the Adolphe
Max-atheneum. Doudou and the teacher 'made paedophile videos',
he claimed. He would have heard Doudou and Nihoul repeatedly
talk 'about cages for children, to make them suffer, and about
videos imported from the United States on which black children
were tortured before being burnt in the cage. That was some time
in 1992-'93'. 'Dolores Bara knows all about it', he added to
that."; apparently, certain kids had
a tendency to start crying when confronted with Vanhuynegem;
Vanhuyneghem often went to Thailand where he could find young
boys; customer of "Mistress Roxanne", Didier Pellerin, a French
transvestite specialized in SM; when Nihoul was interviewed
about Vanhuynegem on October 10, 1996, he stated that "he is
going to become a magistrate some day"). 2004, Herwig
Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 160, about some other visitors
of the Dolo: "... sales director of Philips, a director of
Janssen Pharmaceutics (also J&J), an importer of champagne, a
director of Frere-Bourgeois and a member of the Frere family, a
director of Vittel-Perrier in Belgium... These individuals met
here lawyers, the spouse if a Brussels examining magistrate, the
chairman of the court of commerce, Claude Leroy... Jean Gol..."
X2 claimed about the Dolo that she saw Henri Bil, the private
driver of Vanden Boeynants, talking there to Madani Bouhouche
(also identified Georges Marnette and Claude Leroy). X1 and
Nathalie W. (placed Serge Kubla, mayor of Waterloo, at the Dolo)
had also been taken to the Dolo. One witness mentioned to have
seen Dutroux and Martin come out of the Dolo twice in early June
1996. A "Tony" and "Antoine" also was/were among the visitor(s)
of the Dolo, and could well have been a reference to the pimp of
X1. PV 116.166, December 12, 1996, police interview with Claude
"Max" van Keerbergen (driver-valet parking attendant of Dolores
Bara, according to PV 150.115/97; introduced to the Dolo by
Nihoul's friend Doudou): "He knows Edouard Vanhuynegem as
Doudou (lawyer). Vanhuynegem frequents the Dolo. Van K. knows
Forgeot - Jacques Casserolle - Nihoul - De Cockere - Gaban -
Roger Nollet. In the Dolo there was a transsexual that left with
a commissioner attached the police in Etterbeek. Nihoul and
Genevan frequent the Dolo, but not together. In the Dolo: Claude
Grosjean is joined by his wife and their son of 4 years old.
When seeing Doudou the child starts crying and and says to him
"You cannot do that, because I am a child". During a
conversation between Dolo [Dolores Bara], Nihoul, Doudou,
Forgeot and Jonasz he heard Dolo say: "It is despicable to do
that with children". Nihoul kidnaps a number of children to earn
money. Van K. heard Nihoul and Doudou speak about cages for
children, to make them suffer. Videos from the USA would show
black children in cages in which they were tortured and burnt."
2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 125-126:
"According to Max, Doudou was a contact of an ex-teacher of the
Adolphe Max-atheneum. Doudou and the teacher 'made paedophile
videos', he claimed. He would have heard Doudou and Nihoul
repeatedly talk 'about cages for children, to make them suffer,
and about videos imported from the United States on which black
children were tortured before being burnt in the cage. That was
some time in 1992-'93'. 'Dolores Bara knows all about it', he
added to that. Has this been checked out? An anonymous letter to
the King's prosecutor Bourlet confirms that 'Vanhuyneghem often
went to Thailand and said you could find boys there." 'I know
that Nihoul is not a paedophile', says Max. He is a notorious
gangster, without morals, who can be bought for little. He even
says that 'Nihoul has learned to kidnap children, to earn
money'. He even tried it in the Dolo, but Forgeot said: 'That's
not the way you do that'. |
| Paul van Gheluwe |
b. 1938
|
Source(s): X2
(Present at parties with underage girls in villas in Knokke and
Hotel Cromwell, together with Leopold Lippens and Etienne
Davignon)
Judge in Brussels. Judge in the Court of Appeal and vice
president/chairman of the Tribunal of First Instance in
Brussels, according to Dutroux X-Files (at one point spelled
Geluwe). Retired in 2003. |
| Jacques Grafe |
b. 1928
|
Source(s): known paedophile;
X1 (when shown pictures, X1 identified Jacques
Grafe alongside Jean-Paul Dumont, Jean-Paul Raemaekers and Rene
Bats)
Convicted paedophile. Brother of politician Jean-Pierre
Grafe. |
| Jean-Pierre Grafe |
unknown
|
Source(s): T1 (November 20, 1996, PV
117.320: "Voluntary testimony of T1 (anonymous)... In
January '90 in the "Taverne du Passage", rue des Bouchers 41 in
Bruxelles. A table with a man and two boys of 13 years - blonds.
Description of the man and children. The man caressed the thigh
of one of the children. The man was Jean-Pierre Graffe. Graffe
seems to be an regular of the place."); Jean-Michel
Rulens (in PV 117.529 on November 25, 1996 he told how he was
present at group sex parties in La Brique with Elio Di Rupo and
Jean-Pierre Grafe, how he as a 17 year old had sex with them,
but how Di Rupo and Grafe also had sex with minors. Rulens
mentions a number of other witnesses. Rulens had been sexually
abused as a minor); Oliver Trusgnach (manipulated by Marnette
and should be discarded); Nihoul (November 18, 1996, PV
10.600, interview with Jean Michel Nihoul (summary): "The
information on radio-libre JMB [Nihoul involved with that from
1985 to mid 1990s] was overseen by Marie-Bernard Gilds and
Jean-Louis Bogaert. Bogaert was press attache of the defense
secretary of the time (Jose Demaret). Bogaert was also press
attache for Jean-Pierre Graffe [Grafe]. Bogaert told him that
Graffe was a child molester and that he liked to whip his
boys."); November 20, 1996, The Guardian, 'Belgian minister
to face hearing for 'buying child sex': "In a written
statement, Mr Grafe, said the allegations against him were
intended solely to harm his reputation as a public figure. But
that did not stop the press from reporting that he had been
investigated for having sex with minors twice before, in 1982
and 1984, and that his brother, Jacques, is serving a prison
sentence for paedophile activities."; 2004, Herwig Lerouge,
'The Dossier Nihoul', p. 43: "The Di Rupo affair made yet
another dossier disappear into the background, a much heavier
dossier against Jean-Pierre Grafe, also a friend of Vanden
Boeynants."; Dutroux X-Files, PV 100.130, December 2, 1996:
"Sectarian or satanic activities at the Valmont castle in
Merbes-Le-Chateau. Owner of the chateau = Ferbus Pierre
(07/01/42). Homosexual - banker BBL. Di Rupo and Graffe would
have been seen at these parties. A victim described a place
during a television debate - the description looked like the
Valmont castle. Residents of the chateau: Isaert Christian
(10/03/50) - gardener[;] Beroudiaux Dominique (30/04/54)[;]
Bosquion David (02/10/75). Three entrances to the castle but two
have been blocked. A report of the Police of Lobbes [nearby
town, to the north] get the same information concerning Graffe
Jean-Pierre. In the property there supposedly is a cross of 5
meters across. It would be about satanism. A rapport of the BSR
[Special Investigations Unit of the Gendarmerie] in Thuin
[another nearby town] contains approaching information."
Additionally: PV 100.144 talks about Grafe having done a
[political-business] favor to Ferbus at one time.
Doctor of Law. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Grafe was a
prominent member of CEPIC, the extreme right wing branch of the
PSC headed by Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants.
Became chairman of CEPIC after the disastrous 1981 report of
State Security that de Bonvoisin and friends were financing and
supporting the fascist underground in Belgium. When Grafe kept
de Bonvoisin at a safe distance from CEPIC there grew a conflict
between the two. However, within a year, CEPIC was closed down
as a whole. Walloon Minister of Higher Education in 1996 when he
and vice premier Elio Di Rupo were named as pedophiles by
Olivier Trusgnach, which had been a manipulation of Brussels
police commissioner Georges Marnette. November 20, 1996, The
Guardian, 'Belgian minister to face hearing for 'buying child
sex': "Belgium's deputy prime minister, Elio di Rupo, will
face a parliamentary commission into allegations that he
procured 13-year-old boys for sex, the leaders of the government
and opposition parties decided yesterday... A former chauffeur
claimed that he had driven the minister to the Brussels
red-light district in his official car, cruising for boys
[apparently 16 years and older]... The local press quoted
yesterday patrons of Le CanCan, a gay bar, and of a nearby
nightclub, Le Garage, who said that the deputy prime minister
was a regular visitor, ready to buy drinks for students...
Meanwhile, the Wallonian (French-speaking) regional parliament
has voted for a separate commission to investigate similar
allegations against one of its ministers, Jean-Pierre Grafe...
In a written statement, Mr Grafe, said the allegations against
him were intended solely to harm his reputation as a public
figure. But that did not stop the press from reporting that he
had been investigated for having sex with minors twice before,
in 1982 and 1984, and that his brother, Jacques, is serving a
prison sentence for paedophile activities." During prison
interviews, Raemaekers talked about Jean-Paul Dumont having been
the lawyer of Jacques Grafe. 2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'The Dossier
Nihoul', p. 43: "The Di Rupo affair made yet another dossier
disappear into the background, a much heavier dossier against
Jean-Pierre Grafe, also a friend of Vanden Boeynants." In
contrast to Elio Di Rupo, Grafe would resign from his position
as minister. Vice chairman of Société de Développement de
l'Aéroport de Bierset SA (SAB), founded in 1990, next to
chairman Andre Cools. Cools would be murdered in 1991 and his
death investigated by Connerotte and Bourlet. They were kicked
off the case when they were about to solve it. SAB oversaw the
airport of Bierset and attracted Agusta as an investor. Today
vice-president of Société de Développement de l'Aéroport de
Liège-Bierset, still shortened to SAB. Administrator of
Association Liégeoise d'Electricité (ALE), Groupement de
Redéploiement Economique (GRE), Comité de Direction de la SA
Gestion du Bois Saint-Jean, SA de Promotion du Circuit de
Francorchamps, Royal Motor Union. Vice-president of Radio-Tele
Liege (RTC). Honorary president of Parlement de la Communauté
Française. Chairman of Société mutuelle d'Assurances (Ethias),
probably until 2007, which has also been joined by Elio Di Rupo.
Today a city council member of Luik/Liege and consultant to
Ministry of International Relations. Director of Centre
Democrate Humaniste (CDH; former PSC), a christian-democrat
humanist political party. |
| Hanet family |
-
|
Source(s): X1 (mentioned
the Hanet family, consisting of Fernand, Paul and Jacques, of
being involved in the network by organizing child abuse parties
at the UCO-Belvuco complex in Gent. Two neurospecialists and the
well known Bert family were among the participants They were not
part of the crowd that hunted on children.)
The family members were/are low-profile patrons of UCO
Textiles, a large textile business headquartered in the region
of Gent.
Fernand Hanet (b. 1931): once a manager of UCO Textiles.
Paul Hanet (b. 1933): vice-chairman of UCO Textiles and
Belvuco NV; appointed to the honorary position Advisor for the
Foreign Trade by royal decree; member of the Rotary in Gent.
Jacques Hanet (b. 1935): director of UCO Textiles;
administrator of Belvuco NV; director of Ibel NV until 2000;
member of the Royal Gent Flora, together with Jacques Solvay and
several dozen other influential men in Belgium. |
| Carine Hanquinet |
b. 1954
|
Source(s): X2 (part of her
pimp's circle of abusers)
Judge in Namur and Nivelles. |
| Michel Hubeaux
|
b. 1939
|
Source(s): X1 (recognized
as an abuser in PV 116.251, alongside co-gendarme/Diana group
officers Bouhouche, Amory, Lhost and Mayerus)
Gendarme officer who worked at the Diana Group until his
retirement in 1985, one month after a double murder he had
become a suspect in. His name would be mysteriously removed from
the dossier.
In 1985, gendarme officer Michel Denoncin became a suspect in
a double murder on a trailer park/camping couple. The victims
used to work in the sex industry, the woman, Maria-Louiza
Vanruyskensvelde, as a prostitute, and her husband, Robert
Vissers, as someone who took clandestine pictures of sex orgies
for a third party that was never revealed. The sex club where
Vissers had taken the pictures was located close to the
gendarmerie headquarters in Etterbeek. It was known that Vissers
had kept the negatives, and after the murder his trailer had
been searched extensively by the killer(s). In his trailer
detectives also found a business cart of a company of Robert
Darville (friend of Michel Nihoul; went to
the Jonathan; acted as a gunsmith and delivered explosives to
the Haemers gang, which kidnapped Vanden Boeynants in 1989;
regularly visited the company Logitel, just as Achille Haemers,
Michel Nihoul and where Marc Dutroux and Michele Martin have
also been seen. The witnesses told that some of the men there
were talking about importing "young white and brown horses" from
eastern Europe by plane, but after the Dutroux affair thought
they had been talking about children. The witness, Rita
Vetsuypens, found out she was married to a paedophile who was
involved with these people). In the past, Vissers and
Vanruyskensvelde used to work for a person named Robert Mahieu,
who rented and owned a number of apartments where his clients
could organize sex parties. When detectives searched the home of
Mahieu and went through his agenda (in which all his clients
could be found) they found the names of top officers in the
banking and diamond world, diplomats and politicians involved
with the European Union. Les Atrebates and the Dolo also
appeared in the agenda. It soon became clear that there was a
cover up in this affair when names were blackened out from
official reports and crucial evidence disappeared. The trailer
park itself also was suspect in itself. Its guard also was a
guard in the Sint-Gillis prison where Jean Bultot was assistant
director at that time. One of the trailers in the park was
inhabited by the brother of gang leader Achille Haemers, and
Achille himself would regularly be seen at the camping. One of
the detectives involved in this case would later be found dead,
the reason: suicide. Another officer involved in the case who
kept questioning the innocence of Denoncin and Hubeaux would be
bullied out of the gendarmerie. Denoncin was confidante of Col.
Lhost, the former head of the Diana Group, who was mentioned by
X1 as a child abuser. Denoncin's friend and co-suspect in this
case was Michel Hubeaux, another Diana Group officer, and also
recognized by X1 as an abuser in the network. |
| Serge Kubla |
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|
Source(s): Nathalie W. (raped her
at the Dolo in early 1980s)
Mayor of Waterloo since 1982. Met Nihoul at the Dolo, Les
Atrebates, the golf course La Bawette in Overijse and at
Nihoul's local radio show. Regional deputy of Walloon 1995-1999.
Vice minister-president of Walloon and Wallonian minister of
economic affairs 1999-2004. One of the speaker at the 'Leaders
Meet & Greet' event in Knokke in October 2004. Leader of the
Parti Reformateur Liberal (PRL) in the Senate. Director of Dexia
NV since 2005. Director of IP Trade. Director of Les Amis du
Musée Wellington (Friend of the Wellington Museum). |
| Col. Gerard Lhost |
b. 1940
|
X1 (1 of the 8 persons picked by X1 on
September 30, 1996 out of 40 pictures presented to her (how many
real pictures ranges from "several" to about 20). Four of the
persons she pointed out intrigued De Baets (especially Christian
Amory and Madani Bouhouche) and seemed to confirm his suspicions
that cars of the Gendarme's Diana Group (similar to SWAT) were
involved in abuse/torture network. However, X1 also
misidentified at least three, and maybe four pictures, and this
time it really was a mistake (as opposed to all the
manipulations by the "re-readers" later on).
Lieutenant-Colonel in the Gendarmerie. 2nd commandant of the
Mobile Legion and head of the Special Intervention Squadron
(Diana Group; Belgium's combined SWAT/CT team) in the early
1980s. On February 18, 1982, Lhost became head of the
investigation into the robbery of the Diana Group. During the
robbery, which happened on January 1, 1982, a good number of
high-tech small arms were stolen. Madani Bouhouche (also pointed
out by X1 and seen at the Dolo by X2 with a confidant of Paul
Vanden Boeynants) was totally implicated, but never prosecuted.
Lhost exercised pressure on examining magistrate Bellemans to
keep as much control over the investigation as possible. He
ignored Lt.-Col. Marchoul, head of the info-section of the BOB
Brussels, a person who would normally be contacted. On April 27,
1982, Lhost cancelled the coordination gatherings between
leading members of the investigation, effectively bringing a
halt to any meaningful investigation. Colleagues had already
come to the conclusion at the time that Lhost was shielding the
(central) role of the extreme right from being investigated.
Lhost knew a lot of people over at Forces Nouvelles, the fascist
front for the militant Front de la Jeunesse. Both of these
organizations were overseen and funded by CEPIC, in particular
Baron de Bonvoisin. Lhost left the Gendarmerie in 1985 and went
to work for the Security Bureau (Bureau de Sécurité, or BDS ) of
the European Union (European Commission section). Here he teamed
up with another fascist cell, consisting of Pierre Eveillard
(once worked in the cabinet of Paul Vanden
Boeynants; his brother Christian was a police commissioner in
Etterbeek who protected and visited the notorious Dolo),
Robert Thomas (specialist in political
violence; apparently ran his own intelligence group, trained
members of Nazi organisations like Front de la Jeunesse and
Westland New Post), Roland Maffioli
(ex-member of the political section of the Brussels BOB, who
helped infiltrating neo-nazi Paul Latinus into the State
Security Service), and others. Heared by the Gang of
Nijvel investigation commission on May 12, 1997, which made it
clear to a number of commissioners that Colonel Lhost had indeed
sabotaged the investigation into the 1982 Diana Group robbery.
1999, 'The X-Dossiers, p. 261: "One of the individuals that
was [X1] recognized once was a driver in a service that was
headed by Lhost and possessed heavy black BMWs." In 1985, a
confidante of Lhost, Michel Denoncin, was suspected in a double
murder on a couple in a trailer park. The confidante was a
friend of co-gendarme officer and Diana Group employee Michel
Hubeaux, who was recognized as an abuser by X1. |
| Count Leopold Lippens
|
unknown
|
Source(s): X1 (brothers were among her
worst rapists and torturers); X2 (brothers raped her and were
present at child huntings at Chateau de Chimay); X4 (Lippens
family: 1999, The X-Files, p. 327: "Soon in the investigation
the names of politicians O. and E. are dropped as 'regular
customers'. By that time these had already been pointed out by
X1 and X3 as child killers.". Following the system used by the
book (reversing of the alphabet), O. is really L. and E. is
really V., indicating that the real names are Leopold Lippens
(mayor) and Paul Vanden Boeynants (prime minister, etc.). There
do not seem to be other possibilities. Only problem: according
to the leaked X-dossier summary document, X1 and X2 mentioned
Lippens and Vanden Boeynants, while X3 only mentioned Vanden
Boeynants); two anonymous letters, mentioned in PV 116.353.
Brother of the very influential businessman Maurice Lippens.
His father was an enthusiastic follower of Pierre Teilhard de
Chardin, a French mystical Jesuit priest who advocated the
theory of a global consciousness and how nation states should be
abolished. Another thing Teilhard tried to do was to bridge the
gap between Darwinism and the Catholic faith. The father of the
Lippens brothers gave lectures about Chardin and was a member of
the Teilhard Society. Chardin joined the duc in altum of the
Benedictines. President of the Royal Zoute Golf Club. Mayor of
Knokke-Heist 1979-2004. This town is a very exclusive coastal
holiday resort with a nature reserve, 65 tennis courts, and
loads of 5-star hotels. Many streets in Knokke-Heist are named
after aristocrats or ancestors of the royal family. Leopold had
plans to build a 100 meter or 300 feet high casino before he
would leave his post, but the residents of the town were against
it (would block the sun for some of them). In April 2002, when
boarding a plane for an official visit to Denmark, he was
questioned by the airport security who found two bullets in one
of his pockets. Said he probably forgot to take them out after a
hunting trip. Leopold is a really good friend of Albert Frère.
They regularly play golf with each other and go out hunting.
Anno 2006, director of Compagnie du Zoute in Knokke, together
with Maurice, Paul and Nadine Lippens, and Count Guillaume
d'Arschot Schoonhoven. |
| Count Maurice Lippens
|
b. 1943
|
Source(s): X1 (brothers were among
her worst rapists and torturers); X2 (brothers raped her and
were present at child huntings at Chateau de Chimay); X4
(Lippens family: 1999, The X-Dossiers, p. 327: "Soon in the
investigation the names of politicians O. and E. are dropped as
'regular customers'. By that time these had already been pointed
out by X1 and X3 as child killers.". Following the system used
by the book (reversing of the alphabet), O. is really L. and E.
is really V., indicating that the real names are Leopold Lippens
(mayor) and Vanden Boeynants (prime minister, etc.). There do
not seem to be other possibilities. Only problem: according to
the leaked X-Files summary document, X1 and X2 mentioned Lippens
and Vanden Boeynants, while X3 only mentioned Vanden Boeynants);
two anonymous letters, mentioned in PV 116.353.
Born in 1943 and brother of Leopold Lippens. His father was an
enthusiastic follower of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, a French
mystical Jesuit priest who advocated the theory of a global
consciousness and how nation states should be abolished. Another
thing Teilhard tried to do was to bridge the gap between
Darwinism and the Catholic faith. The father of the Lippens
brothers gave lectures about Chardin and was a member of the
Teilhard Society. Chardin joined the duc in altum of the
Benedictines. Maurice was a scholar of the Benedictines of
Loppem in his early years (at SG, he would find out that three
others were Benedictines: Davignon, Claude de Villenfagne van
AnHyp, and Guy Ullens de Schooten). Studied Law at the
Université Libre de Bruxelles and graduated in 1967. After
receiving an MBA from Harvard in 1972, he went back to Belgium.
Joined Scienta SA, a large European venture capital group at the
time which made many investments in Africa. Became managing
director of Scienta in 1972. Director Société Européenne de
Venture Capital in the 1970s, of which the main shareholders
were the Agnelli and Rothschild Groups. Director of Paribas and
Robert Bosch in the 1970s. Joined Groupe AG as a director in
1981 and became its chairman in 1988. In 1990, when Groupe AG
became part of the Dutch banking group Fortis, Maurice held his
post as (co-)chairman. Stepped down in 2000. Chairman of the
Fortis Foundation Belgium. Vice-chairman of Société Générale de
Belgique since 1988 where he became good friends with Etienne
Davignon, a person he superficially knew for 30 years but never
really liked until then. Lippens' parents and grandparents were
good friends of Davignon's father and mother. Director of Groupe
Bruxelles Lambert and TotalFinaElf. Director of Finasucre Sugar
Group, owned by the Lippens family and an almost worldwide
producer of sugar and milk acid. Chairman of the family's real
estate group Compagnie du Zoute since 1983 (Compagnie du Zoute
was founded in 1908 by Maurice (1875-1956) and Raymond Lippens).
Chairman of Compagnie Immobilière d’Hardelot. Chairman of
Hazegras. Chairman of le Village n°1. Chairman of CDC United
Network, which distributes television productions and does
marketing promotions in magazines and papers through Paperview.
Director and treasurer of the Musée des Enfants (Children's
Museum). Member of the Harvard Business School board of
directors. Vice-chairman of the Royal Belgo-British Union
(Anglo-Belgian Society). Member of the Belgian Council of
INSEAD. Member of Cercle de Lorraine. Annual visitor of the
Trilateral Commission in recent years. Visited Bilderberg in
2000, 2002, and 2006. In an interview with Trends.be, published
on September 1, 2005, Maurice said: "I have never visited
DAVOS and think it's one big carnival. I receive the membership
lists and can, if I want to, call up anyone I'm interested in. I
like to visit Bilderberg and the Trilateral Commission.
Bilderberg is intense. There one has to work from the early
morning to the late evening. The Round Table of Industrialists
is interesting, but I'm not a member because I'm not an
Industrialist. Talking about the future of the world is a
difficult thing by the way. I do like to listen and network in
Washington with the Trilateral Commission. You'll hear about
interesting trends from first hand." Maurice Lippens and
Etienne Davignon set up SN Brussels Airlines, the airline which
succeeded the bankrupted Sabena in 2001. Spoke at the Wharton
INSEAD Economic Forum in 2002. Established the Belgian
Commission on Corporate Governance in 2004 and has been its
president since. Baron Daniel Janssen is among the directors of
this commission. Just as his mother he is a great fan of the
English culture and the only reason he never moved to England is
because he thinks he will always be treated as an outsider. When
he met Prince Charles, Maurice found out that they both read
Eagle Magazine. Countess Maurice Lippens is a member of the
support committee of the Belgian Kids Foundation for Pediatric
Research, which is part of the Queen Fabiola Children's
Hospital. President of this support committee, patroned by
Princess Astrid, is Comte Jean-Pierre de Launoit. A Barbara De
Selliers De Moranville co-organized a huge party for 3500
children in the garden of Countess François d'Ansembourg, which
was part of the Belgian Kids Foundation. |
| Count Francois Lippens
|
|
Source(s): Text from PV
8.372/98 in the Dutroux dossier, which briefly outlines some of
the connections of Michel Nihoul (translated from French):
"Transmitted to examining magistrate Mr. LANGLOIS in
Neufchâteau, his dossier 86/0/96 [April 22, 1998]... Annex 161.
A note on the existence of a SNUFF [videos on which people are
killed] network of which Mr. GLATZ of the CIDE would have had
knowledge and in which one would find a certain François
LIPPENS, who is close to the mayor of Knokke, whose name is
often mentioned in very horrible activities. I conducted no
verification or crosscheck."; his family members Maurice and
Leopold have been mentioned as child abusers by a whole range of
witnesses.
Honorary consul general of Belgium in Nice, appointed in
November 1987 (already a honorary consul general in 1998).
Member of the Corps Consulaire des Alpes-Maritimes, the Consular
Corps in Alpes-Maritimes, a region in southern France which
includes the cities of Nice and Cannes. Officer in the Order of
Leopold since 1998. Attended meetings with the King of Belgium
celebrating the birth of Belgium and such. Has spoken at a
number of these meetings.
Interesting note: X69, a transvestite specialized in SM and
scatology, testified that in 1993 or 1994 he was asked by a
pimp, Micha, from Berendrecht, if he wanted to make 50,000
franks in one night. X69 was interested and was pointed towards
an old house in Berendrecht. While walking towards the house he
noticed a large American car and "a gray Mercedes with a
license plate of the Consular Corps" (1999, The X-Files, p.
331). X69 found 4 men and 3 women inside, including Michel
Nihoul and Anne Bouty. Three girls and a boy were also present,
which he estimated between 8 and 13 years old and probably from
the Netherlands or Germany. Nihoul had sex with several children
while Bouty made them watch her while having sex with a guy of
about 30 years old. X69 didn't touch the children and was very
uncomfortable that night. He had pee sex with a guy in his
fifties. Investigators were able to find the house after a
while; it had been demolished in the mean time. |
| Georges Marnette
|
b. 1946
|
Source(s): X2 (PV
118.381, December 13, 1996: "X2 met Dumont several times at the
Platos in Ixelles. She also met Marnette, Pelos and Zimmer (PJ
BXL) there. It is a club for orgies, occasionally with
consenting minors participating. Dumont went there with boys.
Dumont and Marnette know each other well (partners in crime).");
Nathalie W. (accused Marnette of being involved in raping her,
together with Claudio de Balanguer, a sidekick of her Prince de
Merode); PV 116.065, November 5, 1996: "31/10/96 JC
Thomas (Gendarmerie) is contacted by an anonymous witness. The
witness is outraged by the manipulation of public opinion by the
Press (DH). He speaks about the article 'Ras-le-Bol'. Marnette
himself has participated in partouzes with Nihoul during which
coke was available. It is about a manipulation of Georges
Marnette (PJ) with the complicity of [Gilbert] Dupont (DH).
Marnette is again in contact with Forgeot and Bara [managers of
the Dolo and Les Atrebates]. Marnette is protected. He kept in
contact with Paulus de Chatelet [Véronique Paulus de Chatelet;
governor of law of Brussels]. Affirmations can be confirmed by
Guy Jadot (ex-informant of Marnette and Reyniers [apparently
just as corrupt as Marnette]) and by Salvatore Barega...";
PV 100.835, February 21, 1997 (marked in
red in the summary): "The informer learns from a journalist that
a press leak was organized for 21 or 22/02/97. An article has to
appear in La Derniere Heure about the murder at the
champignonière [Christine Van Hees, which was reopened by X1].
The article has to be written by a journalist who is a friend of
Marnette. NDLR [note de la rédaction]: see declarations of X2
about the intervention of Marnette in this dossier. According to
journalist from the Gent area, Marnette and his journalist
friend took part together in orgies of which photographs would
exist."; PV 151.077, April 15, 1997: "Forgeot [owner Dolo and
Les Atrebates; alleged rapist] says that Marnette, Collignon and
Reyniers [Reyniers] frequented Les Atrebates."
Police commissioner in Brussels and today the number two in
the justice department of the federal police in Brussels. Good
friend of Jean-Paul Dumont
(accused of being a violent child abuser
and had connections all over Belgium's underworld),
who in turn is a good friend of Nihoul
(accused of being a violent child abuser).
Has many contacts in the extreme right and the circle of the
late Paul Vanden Boeynants
(accused of being a violent child abuser).
Interrogated WNP Nazi terrorists Paul Latinus
(DIA-NATO-PIO agent), Eric
Lammers (Wackenhut;
pedophilia found on his and his friend's computer in 2004)
and Marcel Barbier
(Wackenhut-PIO-EIM agent, and Latinus'
right hand in WNP) in late 1983, who admitted to
having committed two murders. For some reason, they had been
given orders to spill the beans. Recruited Latinus as an
informant. Marnette was called by Latinus several hours before
he was suicided in April 1984 with some information about a drug
case he had stumbled upon. In May 1988, Marnette expressed his
conviction that Latinus had been murdered by someone unknown.
In 1989, examining magistrate Freddy Troch was involved in an
investigation into Group G and the claims of Martial Lekeu.
Brussels police commissioners Georges Marnette and Frans
Reyniers, both visitors of Les Atrebates and the Dolo, soon ran
an internal investigation of Troch's investigation, followed by
a complaint to examining magistrate Benoit Dejemeppe. A year
later, Troch reopened some of the Gang of Nijvel documents and
began looking into its political connections. Two of the persons
he became very interested in as a result were Frans Reyniers
(Brussels police commissioner; assisted in
the Gang of Nijvel investigation; later convicted criminal;
regularly visited the Jonathan, Les Atrébates and later The
Dolo, Nihoul's favorite hangouts, for orgies, sometimes
involving minors) and Baron de Bonvoisin. Troch
was warned and subsequently kicked off the case by Melchior
Wathelet, a violent child abuser together with Baron de
Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, according to X1. Dejemeppe
was a protege of Wathelet, accused by the late Count Yann of
involvement in drugs and pedophilia networks.
September 1989, Congressman Hugo Coveliers, secretary of the
special investigating committee tasked with evaluating the way
gangsterism and terrorism is combated in Belgium (1988-1990), to
Humo magazine (1989, Hugo Gijsels (has written for Humo and De
Morgen), 'De Bende & Co', p. 133-134): "Imagine, everywhere
you hear that story about a blackmail dossier in which
organizations of the extreme right are in the possession of
pictures and videos on which a number of prominent people in and
around Brussels have sex with with young girls; minors it is
said. The existence of this dossier has always been vehemently
denied. Until it was proven that testimonies and videos of this
affair indeed were in the possession of the police services. An
officer of the judicial police (Marnette, H.G.) denied the
existence of these videos, while afterwards this person's
superior admitted that they did exist, that they were kept with
the judicial police in Brussels, but that they were completely
worthless. Strange, because this stuff needs to be
deposited with the registrar and not be kept at some police
service. Subsequently, examining magistrate Jean-Marie Schlicker
confirms that this dossier does indeed exist, but that he wishes
not to give any testimonies about it. The at first non-existing
dossier turns out to exist. The videos without substance then
turn out to be interesting enough after all to be handed over to
the examining magistrate tasked with the investigation into the
Gang of Nijvel. But this person subsequently is afraid to
testify about that! What do you think that has been going on
here?" In August 1996, Marnette volunteered to come to
Neufchateau in the aftermath of the Dutroux arrest as a
specialist in sexual affairs. Following are examples of his
peculiar role in the investigation.
In February-March 1995, after the convicted paedophile
Jean-Paul Raemaekers began testifying about child abuse networks
in Belgium and how high-level officials were involved, Marnette
and Raemaekers' lawyer, Jean-Paul Dumont, tried to gain control
over Raemaekers. PV 115.417, October 19, 1996: "Raemaekers
interview - Period of 20/02 to 15/03/95. At the time of the
investigation of the BSR 3/SRC, Raemaekers had signaled to his
lawyers that he was going to give information on networks of
child molesters. Lawyers = JP Dumont, Marc Depaus and Geuninkx.
Dumont wanted to entrust the investigation to the judicial
police [in which Marnette is commissioner in Brussels] to screen
the information. Dumont intervened with Marnette who is "his
good friend". Marnette sent two men to the jail to audition
Raemaekers on this topic. Lawyer Depaus came with them. The
evidence had to be provided to the judicial police via Depaus
after having been filtered by Dumont."
When the prosecutor of the king in Brussels, Benoit Dejemeppe
(accused of having been involved in the
trafficking of drugs and children; his mentor, Melchior
Wathelet, is accused of being a violent child abuser),
privately inquired about the arrest and evidence against
Annie Bouty (accused
of being a violent child abuser; Nihoul's ex-partner),
he did this through Marnette
(accused of being a child abuser).
Dejemeppe didn't just "inquire out of personal
interest", as he defended himself, he also recommended that
Bouty's dossier be moved out of the pedophilia dossier and into
the car fraud dossier.
In his first week at Neufchateau, Marnette went to Connerotte
and presented him with a picture from the collection of
Jean-Paul Raemaekers, a convicted paedophile, on which a man
could be seen who vaguely resembled Dutroux. Before giving in to
Marnette's request to interview Raemaekers, Connerotte had other
people take a look at the picture, who concluded that the photo
in question had been made in the 1970s when Dutroux was too
young to look like the man in the picture. Also, the man on the
picture could be heard speaking Dutch in the full video, a
language not spoken by Dutroux. Immediately suspicions arose by
Bourlet and Connerotte that Marnette had a hidden agenda. A BOB
officer later commented: "The motive behind it was clear.
Just as more than a year before, in March 1995, he wanted to
gain control over Raemaekers, preferably by interviewing him
himself. Why we don't know. But when you see what Marnette did a
short time later with Elio Di Rupo, then at the very least we
have a strong suspicion."
Since September 1996, Jean-Paul Raemaekers (X1 knew about
him) testified to the BOB about some of the things he knew. His
stories ultimately became responsible for the extended digs in
Jumet, which investigators like Connerotte, Bourlet and De Baets
immediately saw as another red herring, not only for them, but
also for the public. Connerotte didn't pay attention to
Raemaekers, but after he was kicked off the Dutroux
investigation over the Spaghetti affair in mid October, Langlois
made Raemaekers one of his top priorities. At the same time
Langlois did everything he could to discredit the X-File
witnesses. Interrogators of Raemaekers, who claimed he passed
through the stories of his cell mate Guy Focant, failed to
notice several rather obvious contradictions in his story. They
also failed to notice that Raemaekers took info from his other
cell mate, Francis Debuisson, and used it in his own made up
stories. Since October 19, Raemaekers, allegedly through Focant,
claimed that Elio Di Rupo and Jean-Pierre Grafe protected
pedophiles and were involved in the network themselves. This was
two days before Olivier Trusgnach returned to Belgium and became
involved with Marnette. Marnette then became responsible for the
"leak" in which Di Rupo and Grafe were publicly accused of
pedophilia (described below). The digs in Jumet, where according
to Focant/Raemaekers a number of victims of Dutroux could be
found, were finally cancelled in May 1997.
In the summer of 1996, the 22 year old Olivier Trusgnach fled
to London after having stolen from his employer a load of pricey
silverware. As a gay prostitute several years before he had had
sex with government officials, the most prominent of them Elio
Di Rupo (Parti Socialiste), vice-premier of Belgium in 1996; and
Jean-Pierre Grafe (PSC), Walloon minister of Higher Education in
1996, not to mention once a member of CEPIC and a friend of
Vanden Boeynants. Trusgnach was soon tracked down in London, but
was not arrested. It is known that in early September 1996,
Marnette received information from inspector Gregory Antipine
that Trusgnach, as a former gay prostitute, had high level
officials among his clients. For some reason Trusgnach came back
to Belgium on October 21 to talk to the police about his sexual
relationships with above-mentioned government officials.
However, in his October 22 testimony there's nothing
incriminating to be found as he stated that he was 19 years old
at the time of the sexual contacts and wasn't forced to do
anything. Marnette was almost immediately informed of the arrest
of Trusgnach and had contacted officers involved in the case by
October 22. On October 24, Trusgnach suddenly claimed that he
was 17 years old when the homosexual contacts took place between
him and Di Rupo and Grafe, which still wouldn't have been
illegal. Then the next morning Trusgnach began claiming to have
been even younger, only 15, and reported to his interviewers
that he had been informed by the judicial police in Brussels
(Marnette & Co.; date of this deal?) that if he would
"cooperate" (in their crusade against Di Rupo) the charges
against him for stealing silverware would be dropped. In the
mean time, Marnette had written a PV about an informant (whom
Marnette is said to have put under pressure) who claimed that
two homosexuals, Laurent V. and Johan P., were in the possession
of paedophile videos, and that Trusgnach "would have more
information" (apparently, Marnette was aware that the
informant knew both Di Rupo and Trusgnach). On October 28,
Marnette and the two October 24 interviewers of Trusgnach,
Antipine and Struys, put everything they "had learned" in a PV,
which included accusations of pedophilia (as Trusgnach
apparently was only 15) against Di Rupo, Grafe and a number of
other mid-level government officials and businessmen. A few
weeks went by with nothing happening, except that the report
somehow got leaked to journalists. On November 15, various
newspapers thought they had done enough fact checking on the
leaked document and informed the police that its contents would
be discussed in the November 16 newspaper editions. At this
point, magistrates and police commissioners all of a sudden
decided that the home of the two homosexuals, Laurent V. and
Johan P., needed to be searched before these two would get rid
of any evidence that they might possess. Then another peculiar
decision was made: instead of the Judicial Police doing the
raid, which had been working on both cases in its entirety, it
was decided that the De Baets and team, of the BOB, had to
search the place of Laurent V. and Johan P. De Baets was forced
to cancel his vacation and had to telephone all night to even
get an idea of what this case was all about. In the following
weeks, newspapers spread the suspicion that De Baets and his
team, who would soon find themselves in the middle of the X-File
witnesses debate, had been responsible for the entire "anti-gay
witch hunt" against Di Rupo and Grafe. Predictably, no evidence
at all was found by De Baets against Laurent V. and Johan P. It
also soon became obvious to anyone that Trusgnach, as a thief,
con man and someone who kept altering his testimony, was about
the most unreliable witness imaginable. November 26, 1996, The
Independent, 'Gays under pressure in Belgium's moral backlash;
Anger over child murders switches to Belgium's gays': "In
spite of the threat to the government should his allegations
prove true, and in spite of all the pages of lurid allegations
printed in the Belgian press, not even the police have bothered
to establish whether Oliver T was under 16, the age of consent,
when he allegedly had sex with the Deputy Prime Minister. And
nobody seems to care. Oliver T is a "victim" - whatever his age
- and a new, and potent symbol of moral corruption at the heart
of the state... Belgium seems determined to find the "guilty
man". The "moral" right is on a new crusade... The gay community
all over Belgium is on the alert. Political leaders of the
extreme right Vlaams Blok party and the conservative Catholic
parties are targeting them, they say." Michel Bourlet,
Jean-Marc Connerotte, the team of De Baets, and even inspector
Gregory Antipine all came to the conclusion that Marnette and
associates had purposely manipulated and woven together the
cases of Olivier Trusgnach and the two homosexuals. One reason
cited was to discredit the team of De Baets that was working on
the soon-to-be-very-controversial X-Files, and any revelations
from these X witnesses that might accidentally hit the press.
Another reason was to briefly "verify" the rumors of high level
involvement in the Dutroux-Nihoul network, only to have them
discredited again. A third reason might have been to remind high
level officials to support the cover up, as their name might
appear in the newspapers next (Di Rupo and Grafe had never
publicly mentioned they were homosexuals, although it was known
at the clubs they were "hunting" for boys). At some point Di
Rupo said to journalist Alain Gerlache: "I think that what
happened to me might have served to cover up things in this
country that are much worse." Examining magistrate
Laffineur, tasked with finding the source of the
earlier-mentioned leak, accused Marnette of having been
responsible for the leak. Marnette denied however, and was never
prosecuted. Coincidentally, Marnette's seemingly honest
subordinate, inspector Gregory Antipine, decided to hang himself
on August 14, 1999. Interestingly, there were other dossiers
against Grafe (and some also say Di Rupo) with far more serious
accusations of pedophilia. But these dossiers were thrown out
together with the Trusgnach dossier, and have never been
properly investigated.
BOB officers Eric Eloir and Luc Delmartino have stated that
they suspect that Georges Marnette worked together with his
allegedly good friend Gilbert Dupont, a journalist of La
Derniere Heure, in leaking certain information aimed at
discrediting the whole Dutroux and X-witnesses investigation.
Patrick De Baets stated that the whole Di Rupo affair not only
was an effort to discredit his team and the X witnesses, and to
get the pressure off Nihoul, but also to warn politicians to
stay in line. |
| Wilfried Martens |
b. 1936
|
Source(s): X1 (Martens participated
in rape and torture events at the ASCO factory; this person was
brought into the network without knowing what he got himself
involved with. Appeared uncomfortable and seemed to be
pressured); X2 (seen Martens hang out with all the child
abusers)
BA in Thomism, which is about the second most important
philosophy to the Catholic church next to the Bible. Doctor of
Law. Chairman of CVP's (Christian People Party) youth division
1967-1971. Chairman of the CVP 1972-1979. CVP's representative
of the people in Gent-Eeklo 1974-1991. Prime minister of Belgium
April 1979 - March 1981, and follow-up of Paul Vanden Boeynants
of the PSC. Prime minister of Belgium December 1981 - March
1992. Always had a coalition with the PSC. Minister of State
since 1992. Chairman of the European People's Party (EVP) since
1992, of which he had been a co-founder in 1976. Chairman of the
European Union of Christen-Democrats 1993-1996. Fraction
chairman of the European People's Party in the European
Parliament 1994-1999. Considered one of the fathers of the
Unionist Federalism. Chairman of the Catholic Flemish Student
Union in Leuven. |
| Guy Mathot |
1941-2005
|
Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair
(present at parties where underage girls were abused, together
with the later King Albert II)
Born in 1941. Joined the socialists in Belgium at age
sixteen. Mayor of Seraing from 1971 to 1989. Minister of Public
Work and Wallonian Affairs 1977-1980. In the late 1970s he
arranged the contract for the government to hire and eventually
buy the Brussels WTC centre, a failed project from people like
Vanden Boeynants, Charly De Pauw, Ado Blaton, and others. This
dubious deal has cost the Belgian government about $500 million
in total. Minister of National Education for several months in
1980. Minister of the Budget and Domestic Affairs 1980-1981.
Vice Prime Minister for a few months in 1981. In 1982, Mathot
ended up in the Mosbeux Affair: his wife was in business with
the wife of someone who has been caught for embezzlement.
Resigned as chairman of Parti Socialiste in 1983. In 1983,
Mathot is caught trying to dispose of sensitive documents of the
local Seraing soccer club, which might have exposed another case
of embezzlement. Chairman of Parliament Defraigne intervened and
Mathot was released. Member of Cercle des Nations. Freemason.
Minister of Domestic Affairs within the Wallonian Government
1992-1994. In 1994, Mathot resigned again as he was accused of
having taken bribes from Agusta, the company that sold
helicopters to the Belgian government. Supposedly, other
helicopters had been a better choice, but because of the bribes
people like Mathot promoted buying Agusta's helicopters. At the
same time Mathot was named as one of the persons who had Andre
Cools killed in 1991, supposedly because the latter threatened
to expose the whole dirty business after not having received his
part of the bribes. Mathot was cleared of all charges in 1998.
Again elected Mayor of Seraing in 2000 and remained in this
position until his death in 2005. Chairman of Parti Socialiste
in Ville de Liège since 2003 until his death in 2005. |
| Col. Rene Mayerus |
1922-1985
|
X1 (1 of the 8 persons picked by X1 on
September 30, 1996 out of 40 pictures presented to her (how many
real pictures ranges from "several" to about 20). Four of the
persons she pointed out intrigued De Baets (especially Christian
Amory and Madani Bouhouche) and seemed to confirm his suspicions
that cars of the Gendarme's Diana Group (similar to SWAT) were
involved in abuse/torture network. However, X1 also
misidentified at least two, and maybe four pictures, and this
time it really was a mistake (as opposed to all the
manipulations by the "re-readers" later on).
Colonel in the Gendarmerie. Co-founder of the Diana Group.
Attracted the Nazi Jean-Francis Calmette
(OAS terrorist; Wackenhut director; instructor at the
CIA-NATO-sponsored secret fascist training camps of Front de la
Jeunesse in the Ardennes, which were overseen by DIA-NATO agent
Paul Latinus, another Nazi) in 1974 to train a group of
gendarme officers in full-contact karate. Good friend of Madani
Bouhouche (Nazi; BOB officer until 1983;
caught spying on his colleagues; leading figure in the Practical
Shooting Association; friend and partner-in-crime of such men as
Christian Amory, Bob Beyer and Jean Bultot; went to the
Jonathan; convicted criminal and murderer; in close contact with
Front de la Jeunesse, Westland New Post and Group G) and
Paul Latinus (Nazi; recruited by the DIA in
1967, age 17; trained by NATO; reserve lieutenant with the Air
Force; paid informant of State Security; recruited as an
intelligence agent by PIO in 1977; recommended everywhere by the
CEPIC leadership; member Front de la Jeunesse; founder Westland
New Post in 1981; recruited as a police informant by the
questionable Georges Marnette; suicided in 1984). Good
acquaintance of Major Jean Bougerol, a protege of Paul Vanden
Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin, not to mention head of PIO, a
shady military intelligence unit that controlled the underground
fascist networks in Belgium. Became administrative-director of
EIM (European Institute of Management), the follow-up of PIO, in
1981. US ambassador Douglas MacArthur II became chairman of EIM
several months later. June 6, 1997, Gang investigators Ruth and
Lachlan to the Gang Committee: "Mayerus would have informed
Colonel De Buyst, who was heared about this dossier, that the
WNP effectively worked for State Security and that this was a
honest and clean business... In any case, Colonel Mayerus was
not carried away when he explained what WNP stood for. He said:
'No problem. It is safe, good in the name of national
security.'" This statement that WNP worked for State
Security could well be disinformation, as the fascist
underground and US intelligence could not get along with its
leadership. According to a gendarme officer who testified
against the Gang Commission, Mayerus had referred a person, who
was looking for a security expert, to WNP head Paul Latinus.
Even after his retirement, Mayerus often stopped by at his
former BOB office in Brussels, but after the gendarmerie found
out that he worked for EIM he was forbidden to continue these
visits. At this time rumors had begun to circulate that Mayerus
was gathering information for EIM during these visits. |
| Prince Alexandre de Merode
|
1934-2002
|
Source(s): X2 (two Merode brothers
were present at a party with some of the worst alleged child
rapists/killers: Oliver Castiaux, Baron de Bonvoisin, the Prince
and Princess de Chimay, and Count d'Ursel. Details of the party
were not mentioned in the leaked summary of X2's testimony);
Nathalie W. (Prince Alexander was present at Satanic black mass
where children were raped and tortured); X4 (1999, Annemie
Bulte, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, 'The
X-Dossiers', p. 327 (Dutch to English): "Hearing after hearing
the boundaries are pushed further. Extreme torture, rape scenes,
murders of babies under the eye of men in black hoods. Pretty
soon in the investigation the names of politicians O. and E. are
mentioned as 'regular customers'. Those have been pointed out by
X1 and X3 in the mean time as child killers. X4 also mentions
the prince that played a central role in the account of Nathalie
W. In the month of January she also points to a hotel in
Knokke that was also mentioned by X1.". There's only one prince
in Nathalie's testimony -Prince Alexandre de Merode- and he's
one of her two or three central characters)
Descendant of one of the most noble houses in Belgium. Head
of drug testing policy for the International Olympic Committee
since its founding in 1967. Member of the executive committee of
the IOC 1980-1986. Vice chairman of the IOC 1986-1990 and
1994-1998. Chairman of the Office Généalogique et Héraldique de
Belgique (OGHB). Former chairman of the Royal Club of Historic
Cities and Gardens in Belgium (Koninklijke Vereniging der
Historische Woonsteden en Tuinen van België; like the National
Trust in Britain). Directors of this group have included Baron
Albert Frère, Marquess de Trazegnies, Etienne Davignon, Prince
Lorenz (honorary chair) and Count Ghislain d'Ursel. The
Corporation of the Knights of St. Michael of Brussels: "In
1977 the Burgomaster of Brussels, Mr. Van Halteren officially
conferred upon the Corporation the title of "Serment de St.
Michel de Bruxelles", the Oath of St. Michael of Brussels and
entrusted them with its flag and coat of arms. Twenty years
later, in January 1997 the Saint Sebastian Guild of Westerloo
let it be known that the descendants of their founder, the
Prince de Mérode owned a preciously guarded ancient flag of the
"Serment" and that they wished to return it to the Corporation
of the Knights of St. Michael. And it was handed over during the
Chapter meeting of the Corporation on 29 September 1997 in the
Gothic Hall of the Brussels City Hall by Prince Alexander de
Mérode." Died without having married and without children.
|
| Merode brothers |
|
Source(s): X2 (two Merode brothers
were present at a party with some of the worst alleged child
rapists/killers: Oliver Castiaux, Baron de Bonvoisin, the Prince
and Princess de Chimay, and Count d'Ursel. Details of the party
were not mentioned in the leaked summary of X2's testimony);
Nathalie W. (Prince Alexander was present at Satanic black mass
where children were raped and tortured); X4 (1999, Annemie
Bulte, Douglas De Coninck and Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, 'The
X-Dossiers', p. 327 (Dutch to English): "Hearing after hearing
the boundaries are pushed further. Extreme torture, rape scenes,
murders of babies under the eye of men in black hoods. Pretty
soon in the investigation the names of politicians O. and E. are
mentioned as 'regular customers'. Those have been pointed out by
X1 and X3 in the mean time as child killers. X4 also mentions
the prince that played a central role in the account of Nathalie
W. In the month of January she also points to a hotel in
Knokke that was also mentioned by X1.". There's only one prince
in Nathalie's testimony -Prince Alexandre de Merode- and he's
one of her two or three central characters)
The Merode is one of the most noble families in Belgium
although seemingly never very influential outside their own
region. The family was offered the Belgium throne in 1830 when
Belgium separated from the Netherlands. The family refused, just
as the family de Ligne, and the Saxe-Coburg-Gothas ascended the
throne. Today it is one of 8 noble families in the Blue Salon.
X2 might have been talking about Prince Baudouin de Merode
and his younger brother Lionel. Baudouin lived in Castle Merode
in Westerlo until 2005, when Lionel moved in instead. The castle
is only open to the public one weekend a year. Prince Baudouin
de Merode is a regular guest of the Belgian royal family and a
distinguished member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta
(July 20, 2006, Knack magazine, 'Zeg maar Albert tout court').
Baudouin's wife is a court lady of the Belgian queen. In 2004,
the private Merode Forest of 3700 acres or 1500 hectares became
property of the Belgian government.
The Merode family counts quite a number of Princes and
Princesses.
Prince Amaury de Merode (1902-1980) was mentioned as a
shareholder, and likely a large one, of Société Generale de
Belgique in 1973, together with the Vatican, the Belgian Royal
family, and the Lippens, Solvay, Boël, and Janssen families
(1973, Anthony Rowley, 'The Barons of European Industry', p.
111). Amaury married Marie-Claire Prinzessin von Croy in 1926.
Prince Francois de Merode was member of the Cercle des
Nations in the 1970s (1990, Hugo Gijsels, 'De Bende & Co.', p.
177), under the leadership of Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden
Boeynants. His son Adrien (b. 1946), like Amaury, married a
princess of the de Croy family. Today he heads a low profile
construction group named Beauwal SA. It has some building
projects in the Far East.
Prince Bernard de Merode, born in 1949, has a law degree
specializing in banking and finance. He worked with various
banks before joining a prominent Swiss bank in London as a
member of its senior management. In 1995, together with Philippe
de Patoul (accused of trade in drugs and children), he founded
TNN Trust and Management SA. Went to work as a consultant for
Risk Analysis, a firm with offices in London, Switzerland and
Luxembourg that describes itself as "a discreet provider of
comprehensive business intelligence, investigation and security
risk management services to its financial, legal and corporate
clients around the world". Risk Analysis is headed by
Christopher Davy, a Companion of the Order of the Bath who
officially worked for "the Ministry of Defence", but according
to anonymous UK government sources actually worked for MI5 for
almost three decades. The firms' managing director, Martin
Flint, is a retired very senior 20-year veteran of MI5. Bernard
married Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin's sister Marie Francoise.
Baron de Bonvoisin has been accused from several sides as a
major child abuser. |
| Dr. Karel van Miert |
b. 1942
|
Source(s): X2 (present at parties where 14
to 15 year old girls were abused and had sex with X2)
Born in 1942. Socialist politician from Flanders. Member of
the Brussels Freemasonry lodge Erasmus and a member of the Grand
Lodge of Belgium. Member of the European Parliament from 1979 to
1985 and from 1989 to 1994. Went to Bilderberg in 1993.
President of Nyenrode Business University from 2000 to 2003.
Formerly an advisor to the Rabobank, one of the largest banks in
the Netherlands. Joined the board of Anglo-American Corporation
in 2002, and is a member of the Audit and Nomination Committees.
Nicky Oppenheimer of the De Beers is among his co-directors.
Succeeded Etienne Davignon as a director of Solvay in 2003,
which is a person that also worked for Anglo-American. Member of
the Advisory Board of La Maison de l’Europe of Bibliothèque
Solvay. Member of the supervisory boards of German utility giant
RWE, Philips NV, Munich Re and Vivendi Universal. Member of the
advisory boards of Goldman Sachs, Eli Lilly, and Agfa-Gevaert.
Director of Carrefour Belgium and Wolters Kluwer (large Dutch
publisher). Director of De Persgroep (The Press Group), a media
corporation that owns newspapers and news magazines like Het
Laatste Nieuws, De Morgen, De Tijd, and Het Parool. All in all,
it owns about 30-40 percent of the magazines on the market in
Flanders (Dutch-language Belgium). Anno 2008, van Miert is a
vice president of the advisory council of the European Policy
Center (EPC). The very important globalist Peter Sutherland is
president of the advisory council of the EPC; Lord Kerr, the
Pilgrims and Rhodes Trust executive, is another member of the
advisory council of the EPC. Honorary president of the EPC is
Max Kohnstramm, founding vice president of Jean Monnet's Action
Committee, the initial European chairman of the Trilateral
Commission, and former private secretary to Queen Wilhelmina of
the Netherlands. Even Hans Blix, the long time head of the
International Atomic Energy Agency and the person who headed the
search in Iraq for WMD, is a member of EPC's advisory board.
|
| Hubert Mouson |
unknown
|
Source(s): Haemers Gang gendarmerie
file (as published on PEHI website), p. 40 (an informant who was
a director within the Caisse Privee bank talks about Mouson or
Kouson being known within the bank as a pedophile)
Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as published on PEHI website),
p. 40: "Contact Ellebout (Pers. Direct. Caisse-Privee) dd
13/03/90 [March 13, 1990]: The person involved hands us a
list of the persons employed at Caisse-Privee under CRUYSMANS
(since '83)... The C.P. was founded in by the grandfather of Guy
Cruysmans in 1923. Since then there has continually been a
member of the CRUYSMANS family on the board. CRUYSMANS Guy would
have managed the bank as a despot. HE was also a member of the
OCMW in St.-Lambrechts-Woluwe and because of this function he
recruited young people from Woluwe (delinquent or not). These
recruitings created several problems for C.P. , mainly thefts on
transports of the C.P. to gas stations. In this period there
also were two robberies on money transports of the C.P. In this
period there were also problems in the bank surrounding VDB
[Vanden Boeynants] and the case GEYSSELS. A certain Jacques
DUMONT would have been involved in this in one way or another.
From another source we learned the person in question would have
copied certain documents to blackmail the C.P. Certain
documents, belonging to VDB, were copied. The original ones were
copied and replaced by the copy. In 1968, Hubert MOUSON was
employed by CRUYSMANS. At the time MOSOM kept himself busy with
leading a group of boy scouts. He is known in the bank as a
pedophile and in '86 would have violated an employee of the C.P.
- a certain Franck MAZY, also recruited by CRUYSMANS. MAZY would
have tried to blackmail KOUSON, but was found dead in his
apartment two weeks later (died from the fumes of the boiler).
MOUSON was fired from the bank last year, just as Bob LOUVIGNY
[ex-member of the military security
service; member Practical Pistol Club of Belgium in the early
1980s, together with militant Nazis Madani Bouhouche, Juan
Mendez, Juan Bultot, Alain Weykamp; head private detective
agency BDRI since 1974, which at one point hired an exposed
member of the the Nazi militia WNP; BDRI can work for companies,
for example, for which it can investigate employees suspected of
theft, forgery, fraud or other illegal activities; BDRI can also
work for the government or private citizens; Louvigny was the
private detective who was hired by the famous Dr. Pinon and was
largely responsible for the Pinon Affair; Pinon later stated he
suspected Louvigny had ulterior motives, besides investigating
the affairs of his wife: "Even though after looking back I can't
complain about the way my divorce was handled, I am still
convinced he withheld information - even though he worked for
me. For example, the list of license plates he wrote down while
spying on a sex party, I never saw it."; chairman of the
National Profession Union of Private Detectives of Belgium]
who ceased his activities for the bank in that year. Both still
are good friends."
More information on criminal links of the Caisse Privee bank:
Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as published on PEHI website), p.
66: "CASTIER tells us, off the record, that the first real
criminal facts, carried out by LACROIX, SMARS, HAEMERS, began
after Philippe began to work in the Happy-Few (late '83). They
were good friends with Guy CRUYMANS, director of the "Caisse
Privee". They regularly had meetings with other persons around
CRUYMANS. Castier has brought Philippe to the home of CRUYMANS
on several occasions. The trio, sometimes accompanied by their
women, were to bring over money from clients to the Caisse
Privee. These funds were placed under their name in different
banks in SWITZERLAND, ANDORRA, PANAMA, LICHTENSTEIN, etc...
After a while they were transferred to other accounts, under
another name. The trio received a percentage on the transported
funds. The activities also continued after the death of
CRUYSMANS (Dec. '85)." |
| Guy Nasseaux |
b. 1943
|
Source(s): X2 (present at parties
where underage girls are abused)
Regionally well known notary based in Waterloo. |
| Michel
Nihoul |
b. 1941
|
Source(s): X1 (knew him as 'Mich', who did
a lot of blackmailing; liked to put razors in the vaginas of
girls; had seen Nathalie W.); Nathalie W. (knew him as 'Mich';
raped her three times when she was still a child); PV 116.166,
December 12, 1996, police interview with Claude "Max" van
Keerbergen (driver-valet parking attendant of Dolores Bara,
according to PV 150.115/97; introduced to the Dolo by Nihoul's
friend Doudou): "Nihoul kidnaps a number of children to earn
money. Van K. heard Nihoul and Doudou speak about cages for
children, to make them suffer. Videos from the USA would show
black children in cages in which they were tortured and burnt."
& 2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 125-126:
"According to Max, Doudou was a contact of an ex-teacher of the
Adolphe Max-atheneum. Doudou and the teacher 'made paedophile
videos', he claimed. He would have heard Doudou and Nihoul
repeatedly talk 'about cages for children, to make them suffer,
and about videos imported from the United States on which black
children were tortured before being burnt in the cage. That was
some time in 1992-'93'. 'Dolores Bara knows all about it', he
added to that... 'I know that Nihoul is not a paedophile', says
Max. He is a notorious gangster, without morals, who can be
bought for little. He even says that 'Nihoul has learned to
kidnap children, to earn money'. He even tried it in the Dolo,
but Forgeot said: 'That's not the way you do that'."; X69
(present at a small party with Nihoul and Bouty where several
young children were abused); March 2, 2004, ANP, 'Ex-wife
Dutroux points to Nihoul as contractor': "Michelle Martin, the
ex-wife of Marc Dutroux, says that her former husband kidnapped
the girls Julie and Melissa at the instructions of co-defendant
Michel Nihoul. That turns out from the official indictments from
the Dutroux-case, as public prosecutor Bourlet read out tuesday.
This statement has not been taken up in the Dutch translation of
the act... Also, a witness has spotted co-defendant Nihoul in
1995 together with Dutroux and Lelievre in Oostende, shortly
before the kidnapping of An and Eefje."; at least 8 witnesses
saw Nihoul with Dutroux in Bertrix at the location where
Laetitia would be kidnapped the next day.
Born in 1941. Graduated in interior design. Married a woman
named Adrienne in 1962. Became an independent interior designer
in Verviers. Representative of a US paint company, but was fired
for lack of performance. Took over a hotel of his parents in
1964 and set up a coffee shop. Both went bankrupt a few years
later. Went to Brussels in the late 1960s and became a truck
driver for a number of years. Together with his brother he also
did some paint and wallpaper jobs. First met Annie Bouty in
1971, but it would take several years before they would see each
other again. Sentenced for fraudulent bankruptcy and issuing bad
checks in 1973. Set up United Corporation under his wife's name
(who wasn't involved at all), and became an expert in real
estate, next to interior design. This company also went
fraudulently bankrupt, which resulted in his wife going to jail.
After his wife came out in 1975, she was picked up by her
brother and went to live with her mother, together with the
couple's three children. She divorced him. Around this time it
had become clear to Nihoul's family-in-law and his own brothers
and sisters that he was invariably lowlife. Nihoul again met
Annie Bouty in 1974, around the time that his wife went to jail
for frauds he had committed. As a law expert and trainee at
Jacques Marres, a counselor to Mobutu Sese Seko (the CIA and
Belgian colonists-sanctioned dictator of Zaire/Congo), she had
quite a number of higher level connections. She knew people in
politics, the justice department, embassies, banking and soccer.
First met Achille Haemers, major underworld figure, at the
company Confortex in 1974. Nihoul and Bouty went to live
together in 1975. Set up an interior design firm with Claude
Michel, a former fiancee of Annie Bouty, in 1976. It went
bankrupt some time in the late 1970s. In the late 1970s, Nihoul
convinced Bouty to leave her mentor Jacques Marres and to set up
her own attorney's office specialized in seeking asylum for
refugees in Africa. Nihoul took care of public relations and
brought in a lot of customers. In 1978, Nihoul spent some time
in jail for his part in the fraudulent bankruptcy of "his
wife's" United Corporation. Nihoul contacted Joseph Michel
(PSC; founding member of CEPIC since 1972;
minister of domestic affairs 1974-1977; minister of national
education 1977-1979; chairman of House of Representatives;
minister of domestic affairs and public ambt 1986-1988;
introduced Jacques Langlois to politics in 1988 and made him a
magistrate in 1993; according to André Rossignon, a former high
level PSC official, Joseph Michel was largely responsible for
the removal Connerotte in October 1996 and would also largely
have prevented Langlois from searching the PSC headquarters),
a minister of the PSC under Paul Vanden Boeynants, who became
responsible for his early release. Got to know Jean Gol, leading
light of the PRL and Minister of Justice from 1980 to 1988, in
1980, after an introduction from Andre Damseaux
(already an associate of Nihoul; head of
the PRL and prime minster of Walloon). Philippe Deleuze,
a friend of Bouty from college, became a partner in the law firm
of Bouty and Nihoul in 1980. Deleuze was married to Francoise
Van Espen (acted as godmother of Nihoul's son), the sister of
Jean-Claude Van Espen, the examining magistrate who played a
crucial role in (covering up) the murder on Christine Van Hees
and the Dutroux/Nihoul/X-witnesses investigations. Jean-Claude
Van Espen himself acted as an occasional partner in the firm.
Deleuze was a member of CEPIC and a board member of the
Tentoonstellingspark (exposition park) foundation, of which Paul
Vanden Boeynants was chairman. Vanden Boeynants and Deleuze are
said to have been responsible for the appointment of Jean-Claude
Van Espen to examining magistrate. Nihoul first met Vanden
Boeynants in November 1981 at PSC headquarters in Brussels. He
discussed with Vanden Boeynants an aspect of the Centre Medical
de l'Est (CME) affair. PV 42.665, October 14, 1996 (testimony of
Guy Einsweiller or Eschweiler): "Remembers Nihoul (fish
trade near the PAVAN transport enterprise where he works.
108/11O Avenue du Port 1000, Brussels). During a deal, he saw
Dumont drinking a glass with Nihoul. Sometimes saw Nihoul at the
restaurant Mayflower in Koekelberg... declared to have regularly
seen Dumont and Vanden Boeynants in the private area of the fish
and crustacean enterprise that he exploited. [early 1990s]"
According to Jozef De Poorter, head of construction firm VDK,
which he took over from Arthur Vande Kerkhove after this person
died, Vande Kerkhove was a great fan of orgies, which he
attended with Paul Vanden Boeynants and Nihoul (T.3518/96,
February 3, 2000). 1999, Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie
Bulte and Douglas De Coninck, 'De X-dossiers' p. 116-118:
"Edouard Nihoul, the Brussels PRL-politician and royal court
supplier of cake and pastry, has similar experiences. The
confectioner shouts from the rooftops in late 1996 that he is
not family, but the by Michel Nihoul himself spread rumor seems
inextinguishable... Edouard Nihoul, the unfortunate
confectioner, at the time was chairman of the CEPIC in Brussels.
'Michel Nihoul helped during election campaigns. At a certain
moment, Vanden Boeynants couldn't stand him anymore. I've read
that he now denies to ever have had something to do with Vanden
Boeynants. I have to laugh about that.'" Besides Vanden
Boeynants (said to have been a major child abuser), Nihoul is
also said to have helped arrange political campaigns for
Jean-Paul Dumont (said to be a major child abuser) and Deleuze.
Deleuze resigned after 10 months in 1980 after stating that
Nihoul was giving too much business to Bouty and too little to
him. His wife, Francoise, also complained that the company
received too many complaints from clients who did not receive
answers to their letters. Nihoul was responsible for that. Bouty
had an apartment at the Rue Dupre in Jette (district in
Brussels) from 1971 to 1981. X1 (Regina Louf) pointed out this
address as a location where she had been abused by Nihoul and
Bouty in the early 1980s, and accurately drew a layout of the
apartment. PV 116.018, October 25, 1996 (4th interview with De
Baets and Hupez): "X1 also specifies the presence of Bouty
when she went through the rapes of Nihoul in Jette, rue Dupre
51. Bouty actively took part in the feasts and liked to hurt the
children (put certain objects in the orifices of children...
knives, screwdrivers... which wounded the children). Bouty had
the role of executioner." X1 related how she first met
Nihoul in the late 1970s when her mother brought her to the
apartment of Nihoul (didn't exist anymore in 1996). Tony,
Dutroux, Bouty, and Vanderelst could be found there. She would
also meet Michele Martin and Bernard Weinstein at some point.
May 2, 2002, BBC, 'Regina Louf's testimony': "One of the
regular organisers of these parties, she said, was the man she
knew as 'Mich', Jean Michel Nihoul. The sessions not only
involved sex, they included sadism, torture and murder; and
again, she described in detail, the place, the victims and how
they were killed. She also claimed the young Marc Dutroux was
there. "At these parties Nihoul was a sort of party beast while
Dutroux was more on the side." Regina Louf's testimony was
vitally important." X1 would be taken by these people to
different locations where children were abused, tortured and
killed. X1 also became one of the girls that Nihoul would take
with him to business meetings, receptions, and diners so she
could hang around persons that he pointed out. These persons
were child abusers and this way Nihoul reminded them that there
was no way out. Tony was also involved in blackmailing people.
1999, Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulté, and Douglas De
Coninck, 'De X-dossiers', p. 99-103: "Since I was 8 or 9
years old, Mitch [Nihoul] would often enough take me with him
and give me the assignment to hang around a certain customer. I
liked doing that. I enjoyed seeing them shamble around, their
efforts to stay out of my way unnoticed. I smiled when Mich
asked me to stand next to a customer to make a picture, and how
the customer reluctantly smiled and put a weak arm around my
shoulder... The glances which were then exchanged between the
one taking the picture and the customer were priceless. The
customer knew he was trapped... In the night they had been the
boss, now they were prey... Too bad that most of them, once they
knew they had been trapped, went to experiment even more during
the night... In Brussels there was a villa in which a room was
set up with built-in cameras. Even in the 1970s these cameras
were so discrete that only the people who maintained them and
the child-hookers knew where they were located... Why did I had
to get those guys clearly in the picture, why was I supposed to
get them to hit me and brutally rape me? Why was 'regular' sex
often not enough?... Blackmail, the word that was never
mentioned, I only started to really understand when I was
thirteen, fourteen years old... The deals that were struck
between the perpetrators were negotiated before I went to bed
with them, while I was sitting with them at the diner table -
like the carrot in front of the mule to make him go faster - or
after the sex. As appetizer or dessert, it made no difference to
me, for them it was a way to keep each other to the deals made,
unwritten contracts with enormous binding power. Because once
you've had sex with a child, you are branded... unless all
parties keep their mouths shut. Then nothing tastes sweeter than
a child, one of the perpetrators once remarked. Contracts
between the business milieu and the political world, contracts
between businessmen amongst each other, fraud with subsidies or
licenses, setting up fake firms, criminal contracts like arms
trade... everything was possible. And it always ended with sex
and children... Pictures were taken, in jest, to keep both
parties to their contracts... [Through blackmail practices] men
were introduced to the network by colleagues, friends or family
members. Carefully or slowly, or briskly after a party. Step by
step customers, who first went to bed with me cautiously, were
stimulated to rougher sex. I was forced to help them with
that... They became complicit and at the same time their mutual
connections became tighter. Not one of these people was still
inclined to sign contracts with individuals outside the network.
If that happened one could make them pay dearly for that..."
Nihoul set up Bio Plantal en Bio Clinic in 1980, which went
bankrupt in 1982. Around the time his relationship with Bouty
stranded, starting in 1981 and final in 1982, Nihoul was invited
to the sexclub Les Atrebates. Some other visitors of Les
Atrebates were Frans Reyniers (Brussels
police commissioner; assisted in the Gang of Nijvel
investigation; later convicted criminal; went to the Jonathan),
Georges Marnette (Brussels police
commissioner; good friend of Jean-Paul Dumont, the former CEPIC
lawyer who has been accused of serious child abuse and was a
friend of Nihoul; interrogated WNP Nazi terrorists Paul Latinus,
Eric Lammers and Marcel Barbier in late 1983; recruited Paul
Latinus as an informant just before he died; denied the
existence of the Pinon affair videos, which turned out to be a
lie; became notorious for his disinformation campaign during the
Dutroux-Nihoul investigation), Guy Jadot
(informant of Reyniers and Marnette),
Guy Collignon (chief investigator in the
Christine Van Hees murder who said to her brother that the
investigation was gravitating towards high level people, that he
would not pursue these leads and that he would soon be promoted
because of that), Claude Leroy
(judge and chef-de-cabinet of minister of justice Jean Gol; his
wife had some dealings with Jean Bultot; gave classified
information to the mafia), Jean Gol
(chairman PRL 1979-1981; vice prime minister 1981-1988; minister
of justice 1981-1988; X2 attended a meeting at the Hilton
between Madani Bouhouche's spouse (husband of an alleged
abuser), Paul Vanden Boeynants (alleged abuser), Wilfried
Martens (alleged abuser), Guy Delvoie (alleged abuser who
partied with Lippens and Davignon), Nihoul (alleged abuser) and
Jean Gol; minister of foreign trade in 1985; chairman Liberal
Party; member European Parliament; Freemason), Jacques
Neerinck (substitute judge and notary),
Leon Defosset (mayor of Etterbeek),
Robert Darville (friend of Michel Nihoul;
acted as a gunsmith and delivered explosives to the Haemers
gang, which kidnapped Vanden Boeynants in 1989; regularly
visited the company Logitel, just as Achille Haemers, Michel
Nihoul and where Marc Dutroux and Michele Martin have also been
seen. The witnesses told that some of the men there were talking
about importing "young white and brown horses" from eastern
Europe by plane, but after the Dutroux affair thought they had
been talking about children. The witness, Rita Vetsuypens, found
out she was married to a paedophile who was involved with these
people), Michel Vander Elst, Jean-Louis Delamotte
(business partner of Nihoul; incorporated
Achats Services Commerces, which was tied to the white
Mercedesses affair from which children were photographed;
Nihoul, Bernard Weinstein, Michel Lelievre and Michele Martin
(not Dutroux) had all been spotted on a regular basis in the
immediate surroundings of this company), Eddy Merckx
(most famous and successful road racing
cyclist of Belgium; awarded a barony) and some people
from NATO (PV 119.249). The owners of Les Atrebates were Michel
Forgeot and Dolores Bara. Met the 25 year old Marleen De Cokere
in September 1982 at one of the orgies in the Atrebates club.
That same month they went to live together. At the time, Nihoul,
in addition to his ongoing business relationship with Bouty's
law firm, was a real estate expert at Office des Proprietaires
(headed by the sister of the head of the Refugee Service). X1
recognized the Atrebates club and how she went there with Nihoul
as a 12 to 14 year old girl. She recognized a picture of
Nathalie W. and placed her in the early 1980s in the Atrebates
Club. Nathalie W. was indeed present at this club and claimed
how she had been raped by Nihoul, Michel Forgeot and Georges
Marnette. She correctly identified Tony, the pimp of X1, and
remembered how he was a friend of Nihoul. PV 22.820, October 11,
1996, cab driver Francois Fontenelle (2004, Het Dossier Nihoul,
p. 124): "I brought Mr. Nihoul to Etterbeek to a house in
the Atrebatenstreet. He invited me out to the first floor
because he only wanted to pay inside. When I came in, there were
three girls of twelve, thirteen years, almost without clothes,
only in a nightgown. I saw they were very young because they
didn't have any pubic hair. Two of them were foreign, the third
I don't know. In the room there also were two men, dressed.
Nihoul forced me to take off my clothes and when I refused he
threw me out with my shirt and my coat... it certainly was
Nihoul... I am also certain that it was the house in the
Atrebatenstreet [Les Atrebates club]." 2004, Herwig
Lerouge, Het Dossier Nihoul, p. 124 (PV 100.497, December 3,
2001, p.23): "A certain Lambermont, former restaurant owner
in Woluwe, said the same thing. He would have seen Nihoul in Les
Atrebates in the presence of minors." Les Atrebates was
closed in 1983 after a police investigation into the orgies that
went on there. According to at least one former member, who like
many others, including Nihoul, went over to the Dolo, orgies
continued to be arranged in the Atrebates club after it had been
officially closed. Set up Inter Restho in February 1983. Went
bankrupt in 1984. Together with De Cockere, Nihoul took over the
bar Le Clin d'Oeil in Brussels in 1983, which counted among its
regular customers Patrick Haemers (gang
leader; Nihoul had known his father for almost 10 years at this
point) and Brussels chief police commissioner Albert Toch
(Dolo visitor; acted as an informant to
Toch in 1994; voluntarily went to interrogate Nihoul and Forgeot
in the wake of the Dutroux affair). According to a former
employee of Le Clin d'Oeil -Agnes Dumont- Nihoul was always
buying drinks to different police officers from Brussels. The
takeover of Le Clin d'Oeil had been financed by the Centre
Medical de l'Est (CME) affair (a scam in which he, Bouty and
others were involved). Regular visitor of Le Mirano in Brussels,
about which Juan Mendez said it was the key to understanding the
Gang of Nijvel. Other frequent members of Le Mirano were Madani
Bouhouche (alleged violent abuser; Gang of
Nijvel linked), Robert Beyer (Gang
of Nijvel linked), Patrick Haemers, Charly De Pauw
(alleged violent abuser) and Jean
Bultot (Gang of Nijvel linked).
According to X2, Baron de Bonvoisin
(alleged violent abuser), Paul Bourlee
(alleged violent abuser) and her
pimp Oliver Castiaux (alleged violent
abuser) also visited the club, just as Prince Laurent. In
April 1984, a close family member of a prominent judge died in
the Mirano from an overdose of drugs, resulting in an
investigation which not only uncovered evidence of drug dealing,
but also of a clandestine paedophile ring there headed by
Philippe Cryns (co-founded Parc Savoy in
1985 with individuals like Charly De Pauw and Ado Blaton. Member
of Cercle des Nations, together with such figures as Paul Vanden
Boeynants, Baron de Bonvoisin and Cercle founder Jean Violet).
The prosecution and the judge decided to focus only on evidence
dealing with drug dealing for which Cryns was sentenced to three
years in jail in 1986. His partner Alexis Alewaeters received 5
years. Both Alewaeters, a close associate of Nihoul and Bouty,
and Cryns were named as the main organizers of paedophile
parties at Le Mirano and personal villas. Witness VM1, a child
prostitute employed by Cryns, explained on February 16-17, 1997:
"I had to pick up children and get them drunk or give them
drugs, then take 'em to the private area [of the Mirano], where
they were abused." About tapes that had been confiscated on
which allegedly Cryns' clients could be seen having sex with the
children, judge Claire De Gryse said she didn't watch them,
"because everyone assured me that nothing was on there that
would even shock a capuchin." VM1 also told that he
witnessed children being murdered and how newly-initiated who
worked against the program ended up in car accidents. Nihoul was
brought in as DJ of Radio Activite in Etterbeek in 1984 by
Didier Genart. Genart was son-in-law and parliamentary secretary
of mayor Defosset of Etterbeek (and Les Atrebates). Radio
Activite was headquartered in Etterbeek. At Radio Activite
Nihoul surrounded himself with teenagers and artists, for whom
he organized parties in a local town hall and Chateau
Faulx-les-Tombes. Soon Nihoul and entourage came to consider
these events, to which many under aged teenagers went, as sex
parties. Whether Nihoul and his group had sex with under aged
children doesn't seem to be known, only that a lot of recruiting
was done with alcohol. In 1984, Nihoul and De Cokere were
invited by the mayor of Etterbeek (visitor of Les Atrebates) to
spent a month at Chateau Faulx-les-Tombes. Over the course of a
year Nihoul got to know a lot of people, including local
politicians and prostitutes he interviewed on his radio. Set up
his own Radio JMB in September 1985, of which he became
chairman. PV 10.600, November 18, 1996, (interrogation of Jean
Michel Nihoul - summary): "The information on radio-libre
JMB was overseen by Marie-Bernard Gilds and Jean-Louis Bogaert.
Bogaert was press attache of the defense secretary of the time
(Jose Demaret). Bogaert was also press attache for Jean-Pierre
Graffe [Grafe]. Bogaert told him that Graffe was a child
molester and that he liked to whip his boys." One floor
below Radio JMB the headquarters of the influential Parti
Reformateur Liberal (PRL; now Mouvement Reformateur) were
located. Besides PRL members Jean Gol and Andre Damseaux, Nihoul
got to know a number of other PRL politicians. One of them was
Henri Tombeur (actually, Nihoul already knew him since his time
at Radio Activite), the former PRL council member of Etterbeek
who ended up with a conviction for pedophilia. PV 151.514, May
5, 1997 (about December interview about Nihoul), Nathalie
Perignon (suspiciously present with three
men (Radio Activite employees who knew Nihoul) in a black car
observing the champignoniere where Christine had been murdered a
week before; phoned up Fabienne Kirby during the Dutroux
investigation. Kirby was was a friend of Christine Van Hees and
had begun confirming X1's story a short time before the
investigation was terminated; interviewed in December 1996, but
left alone after that because De Baets and team were removed;
told about Nihoul and Dolo employees attending orgies at the
Dolo to varying degrees): "Perignon worked at the
Euro 92 bar in Tervuren [meeting place for wealthy Eurocrats and
NATO officers; lot of stories about [under aged] prostitution,
orgies and terminated police investigations; today a sexclub
named Le Mirage is located at that address]. Perignon =
ex-coordinator of Radio Activite. She knew Nihoul... Nihoul
introduced him to Graindorge and Vander Elst in 90-91. Nihoul
bragged about being protected by the judicial police,
magistrates, politics (VDB). Her husband saw Nihoul and
VDBoeynants together in the Dolo." The former owners of Les
Atrebates, Michel Forgeot and Dolores Bara, set up The Dolo in
1987, and took much of the former clientele of Les Atrebates
with them. Among them was Michel Nihoul, who was to be informed
if problems arose with local authorities. Police commissioners
Frans Reyniers, Georges Marnette, Albert Toch and Christian
Eveillard (police commissioner of Etterbeek
who protected The Dolo; his brother, Pierre, was head of the
Security Service of the European Commission) went there.
Some other visitors were Guy Collignon
(chief investigator in the Christine Van Hees murder who said to
her brother that the investigation was gravitating towards high
level people, that he would not pursue these leads and that he
would soon be promoted because of that), Leon Defosset
(mayor of Etterbeek), Achile Haemers
(father of well-known gang leader),
Michel Vander Elst (lawyer; accused of
child torture by X1; worked with the Haemers gang in kidnapping
Vanden Boeynants; provided a fake alibi for Nihoul in 1996),
Daniel Blondin (lawyer), Henri
Tombeur (alleged paedophile), Rene
Rodel (friend of Nihoul and Forgeot;
suspected of trade in black girls, some under aged, used for the
prostitution; main shareholder in travel agency Azur Evasion,
which specialized in Thailand; in frequent contact with
Jean-Marie Rihoux of Europe Love Travel, which arranges
marriages with Thai girls, and a person who owned a bar in
Thailand), Jacques Genevois (once a
suspect in Loubna case; visited the Dolo in 1988; also met
Nihoul in Le Perroquet), and Edouard Vanhuynegem
(generally known as "Doudou"; lawyer and
criminologist who often went to the Dolo; according to Claude
"Max" Vankeerberghen, the former driver of Dolores Bara (2004,
Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 125; PV 116.166,
December 19, 1996): "According to
Max, Doudou was a contact of an ex-teacher of the Adolphe
Max-atheneum. Doudou and the teacher 'made paedophile videos',
he claimed. He would have heard Doudou and Nihoul repeatedly
talk 'about cages for children, to make them suffer, and about
videos imported from the United States on which black children
were tortured before being burnt in the cage. That was some time
in 1992-'93'. 'Dolores Bara knows all about it', he added to
that."; apparently, certain kids had
a tendency to start crying when confronted with Vanhuynegem;
Vanhuyneghem often went to Thailand where he could find young
boys; customer of "Mistress Roxanne", Didier Pellerin, a French
transvestite specialized in SM; when Nihoul was interviewed
about Vanhuynegem on October 10, 1996, he stated that "he is
going to become a magistrate some day"). 2004, Herwig
Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 160, about some other visitors
of the Dolo: "... sales director of Philips, a director of
Janssen Pharmaceutics (also J&J), an importer of champagne, a
director of Frere-Bourgeois and a member of the Frere family, a
director of Vittel-Perrier in Belgium... These individuals met
here lawyers, the spouse if a Brussels examining magistrate, the
chairman of the court of commerce, Claude Leroy... Jean Gol..."
X2 claimed about the Dolo that she saw Henri Bil, the private
driver of Vanden Boeynants, talking there to Madani Bouhouche
(also identified Georges Marnette and Claude Leroy). X1 and
Nathalie W. (placed Serge Kubla, mayor of Waterloo, at the Dolo)
had also been taken to the Dolo. One witness mentioned to have
seen Dutroux and Martin come out of the Dolo twice in early June
1996. A "Tony" and "Antoine" also was/were among the visitor(s)
of the Dolo. PV 116.166, December 12, 1996, police interview
with Claude "Max" van Keerbergen (driver-valet parking attendant
of Dolores Bara, according to PV 150.115/97; introduced to the
Dolo by Nihoul's friend Doudou): "He knows Edouard
Vanhuynegem as Doudou (lawyer). Vanhuynegem frequents the Dolo.
Van K. knows Forgeot - Jacques Casserolle - Nihoul - De Cockere
- Gaban - Roger Nollet. In the Dolo there was a transsexual that
left with a commissioner attached the police in Etterbeek.
Nihoul and Genevan frequent the Dolo, but not together. In the
Dolo: Claude Grosjean is joined by his wife and their son of 4
years old. When seeing Doudou the child starts crying and and
says to him "You cannot do that, because I am a child". During a
conversation between Dolo [Dolores Bara], Nihoul, Doudou,
Forgeot and Jonasz he heard Dolo say: "It is despicable to do
that with children". Nihoul kidnaps a number of children to earn
money. Van K. heard Nihoul and Doudou speak about cages for
children, to make them suffer. Videos from the USA would show
black children in cages in which they were tortured and burnt."
2004, Herwig Lerouge, 'Het Dossier Nihoul', p. 125-126:
"According to Max, Doudou was a contact of an ex-teacher of the
Adolphe Max-atheneum. Doudou and the teacher 'made paedophile
videos', he claimed. He would have heard Doudou and Nihoul
repeatedly talk 'about cages for children, to make them suffer,
and about videos imported from the United States on which black
children were tortured before being burnt in the cage. That was
some time in 1992-'93'. 'Dolores Bara knows all about it', he
added to that. Has this been checked out? An anonymous letter to
the King's prosecutor Bourlet confirms that 'Vanhuyneghem often
went to Thailand and said you could find boys there." 'I know
that Nihoul is not a paedophile', says Max. He is a notorious
gangster, without morals, who can be bought for little. He even
says that 'Nihoul has learned to kidnap children, to earn
money'. He even tried it in the Dolo, but Forgeot said: 'That's
not the way you do that'. Nihoul got to know the chairman
of SOS Sahel, Emile Robijn, in 1985. SOS Sahel, founded in 1974,
was supposed to be a foundation to support people living in the
Sahel (boundary zone in Africa between the Sahara to the north
and the more fertile region to the south). However, Robijn was
swindler who would be convicted in 1996 for having embezzled
more than 1 million euros since 1980. Nihoul was convicted in
that same process for having embezzled about 125,000 euros of
SOS Sahel. Nihoul had even defrauded Robijn. From mid to the
late 1980s, Nihoul worked with Bouty and her law firm Cadreco,
which was specialized in representing refugees from Africa
(especially Nigeria, with whose government Bouty had close
relations) in Belgium. Bouty and Cadreco also represented Alexis
Alewaeters, who was involved in the drugs & child prostitution
affair at Le Mirano with Philippe Cryns. On October 6, 1986,
Lt.-Col. Guido Torrez, head of the Neufchateau district of the
gendarmerie, personally called the gendarmerie in Schaarbeek to
tell a gendarme officer to leave his suspect, a Portuguese named
Juan Borges, alone. Why Torrez made this highly unusual move
came out three years later when the company of Annie Bouty,
Cadreco, went bankrupt and all the company's financial records
were sieged. It turned out that Bouty's friend Michel Nihoul had
been the one who personally called up and convinced Col. Torrez
to leave Borges alone. Borges was a business partner of Nihoul
in the underworld, and was involved in the illegal trade of
gold, drugs, fake dollars, art and apparently also humans. He
had high level connections to the Italian mafia and fascist
members of the Jonathan Club like Frederic Godfroi (inspector of
the BOB in Brussels who became a gang leader; friend of Jean
Bultot and acquainted with Nihoul). In 1985-1986, Borges owned
the firm Candy Medical, which was a front for illegal weapons
trafficking. This firm was located in a building owned by the
Security Bureau of the European Union/Commission, headed by
fascist Pierre Eveillard, whose brother was a police
commissioner who protected the Dolo. Brigitte Jenart, Borges'
girlfriend since 1983 who only found out about the criminal
circuit he was involved with after a while, in 1996 claimed that
it took only one call from Bouty at the time for the gendarmerie
to leave Borges alone. Jenart also claimed that Bouty had it
checked once in a while if Borges had not appeared on an
internal watchlist of the gendarmerie. Jenart committed suicide
in April 1998. Bouty admitted in 1989 that she had told Nihoul
to call Torrez. Nihoul founded J.M. Nihoul et Associes in 1987,
together with his son. Bouty had an advisory role during the
founding of the partnership. The company went bankrupt in 1989,
largely because Nihoul's son, not wanting to become Nihoul's
next bankruptcy victim, provided evidence to the police of his
father's swindles and had the company declared bankrupt
prematurely. During the investigation into this bankruptcy the
justice department found videotapes and invitations of sex
orgies at Nihoul's home. After his release later in 1989,
Nihoul's daughter had to convince Nihoul not to have his son
murdered. Nihoul started a "wholesale" in fish and shellfish in
1989. His company was called De Cokere-Nihoul, although Marleen
claimed never to have been involved in the enterprise. Through
Marcel Henrottay (a visitor of the Dolo), invited in 1988 to
become a member of Confrerie des Maitres Brasseurs et
Distillateurs de Wallonie, a group that promoted locally
produced alcoholic beverages. Marleen De Cokere and Michel
Forgeot were also invited. Within two years, Nihoul was asked to
become chairman of the Confrerie. In the early 1990s, Nihoul was
a very prominent visitor of Coco Beach, a club owned by
"M.C.D.", a former girlfriend of Patrick Haemers with whom she
had a son. The club was continually visited by members of the
Haemers gang and Jean Bultot also loved to go there. At that
time, M.C.D. lived together with Jean-Paul "Pepe" Derijcke, the
former owner of The Jonathan in the 1980s. The Jonathan was a
club filled with militant NATO and CIA-sponsored Nazis where
prostitutes were used to blackmail customers. Visitors included
Madani Bouhouche (Nazi; BOB officer until
1983; caught spying on his colleagues; leading figure in the
Practical Shooting Association; friend and partner-in-crime of
such men as Christian Amory, Bob Beyer and Jean Bultot; went to
the Jonathan; convicted criminal and murderer; in close contact
with Front de la Jeunesse, Westland New Post and Group G; named
by X1 as someone who raped her), Jean Bultot
(Son of Lucien Bultot, who was a nominee
for the fascist Parti des Forces Nouvelles; good friend of
Francois Dossogne, head of the fascist Front de la Jeunesse
(private militia behind Parti des Forces Nouvelles); became
assistant director of the Sint-Gillis prison in Brussels in
1978, despite a strong negative advice from State Security
(attacked for years by the fascist de Bonvoisin and CEPIC in
general); acted as a liaison between several Nazi inmates and
Belgian's fascist underground, for which he allegedly did some
recruiting; friend of Jean-Paul "Pepe" Derijcke, owner of the
Jonathan in Sint-Gillis in the 1980s; member Belgian Practical
Shooting Association, together with Bouhouche and other
fascists; founded the Prisons Practical Pistol Club and mainly
recruited fascist friends from the police and prison guards,
including Bouhouche, Juan Mendez, Alain Weykamp and Bob
Louvigny; organized shooting events at which a number of
participants usually wore Nazi emblems and shirts of Soldier of
Fortune; at these practical shooting events the theme 'warehouse
panic' was quite prominent and was later put into practice by
the Gang of Nijvel; seriously linked to the Gang of Nijvel; fled
to Paraguay in 1986, after the murder on Juan Mendez (by
Bouhouche); from Paraguay he began claiming that State Security
(again, attacked for years by the fascist de Bonvoisin and CEPIC
in general) was involved in the Gang of Nijvel and gave the
advise to examining magistrate Freddy Troch to reinvestigate the
Pinon affair (quite possibly a hidden threat to Belgium's
establishment)), Juan Mendez (born
in 1952; fascist gun-lover who owned dozens of rifles and
pistols; arms merchant at Fabrique National (FJ) whose Peruvian
predecessor fled Belgium after it was found out he worked for
the CIA and was involved in the illegal arms and drug trade;
involved with the fascist underground since the late 1970s, and
was tested to be introduced to higher circles by Bouhouche; part
of Bouhouche's group to some day conduct a terror-extortion
campaign against warehouses; interrogated several weeks before
his murder about his connection to Douglas Stowell, a rich
American who apparently was working for or with the CIA in
Iran-Contra; one MP5 stolen from the Diana Group was found at
his home after he was killed), Lucien Ott
(born and raised within the Foreign Legion
in Algeria (colony of France); airborne commando veteran; served
in French Indochina
(colony of France); joined French Military Intelligence;
founded the International Bodyguard Association (IBA) in 1957;
bodyguard of de Gaulle during the height of the OAS crisis; died
in 1980), Francis Dossogne (paid
"advisor" to Baron de Bonvoisin; took his orders from Army
Intelligence major Jean Bougerol, head of PIO and personally
picked by Vanden Boeynants and Baron de Bonvoisin; another
"private detective"; director of CIDEP, publisher of the fascist
NEM magazine; good friend Jean Bultot, who is closely tied to
the Gang of Nijvel; gave permission to Paul Latinus in '78-'79
to reorganize the Brussels department of Front de la Jeunesse;
according to Martial Lekeu, Dossogne, Latinus and DEA agent
Frank Eaton were leaders of Group G, a Nazi-inspired
NATO-sanctioned parallel organization within the Gendarmerie),
Jean-Francis Calmette (joined the terrorist
OAS, which tried to assassinate de Gaulle and destabilize
Algeria; director of Wackenhut Belgium until 1981; instructor at
the secret fascist training camps of Front de la Jeunesse in the
Ardennes, which were protected by NATO and overseen by DIA-NATO
agent Paul Latinus, another fascist; member of Westland New Post
(WNP), headed by Latinus; head of security of the annual ball of
the PSC in 1980, headed by Paul Vanden Boeynants at the time),
Raymond Lippens (gangster), and
Robert Darville (Les Atrebates; acted as a
gunsmith and delivered explosives to the Haemers gang, which
kidnapped Vanden Boeynants in 1989; suspected of trade in
children with Nihoul and Dutroux). Pepe Derijcke and
Nihoul knew each other well and at some point they even went to
see a castle in Hoei that Pepe was interested in in buying and
turn into a hotel for rich people. A couple went with them who
had the idea to turn it into a SM castle. Nihoul's
shellfish/fish business, largely a front for criminal activity,
went bankrupt in 1992. A French investor named Michel Briat was
willing to pay the debts of the company. In reality Briat, a
murderer, was part of a French gang that also traded in stolen
cars. At some point in 1993 or 1994 Nihoul fell out with these
men and distanced himself from them, fearing for his life. In
late 1992 or early 1993, Nihoul became a member of the
Comiqu'art, a club for actors (theatre) and singers. According
to the owner, Nihoul was not involved in organizing any of the
club's events, but at least one witness got the impression that
Nihoul was coordinating the club's Monday evening singing
competition for girls from 8 to 15 years old. This witness also
noticed how Nihoul often could be found in the dressing room of
the young artists. Dutroux went to this club at least once in
1995 (after his release from jail), but his membership and how
much he went has never been investigated. X69, a transvestite
specialized in SM and scatology, testified that in 1993 or 1994
he was asked by a pimp, Micha, from Berendrecht, if he wanted to
make 50,000 franks in one night. X69 was interested and was
pointed towards an old house in Berendrecht. While walking
towards the house he noticed a large American car and "a
gray Mercedes with a license plate of the Consular Corps"
(1999, The X-Files, p. 331). X69 found 4 men and 3 women inside,
including Michel Nihoul and Anne Bouty. Three girls and a boy
were also present, which he estimated between 8 and 13 years old
and probably from the Netherlands or Germany. Nihoul had sex
with several children while Bouty made them watch her while
having sex with a guy of about 30 years old. X69 didn't touch
the children and was very uncomfortable that night. He had pee
sex with a guy in his fifties. Investigators were able to find
the house after a while; it had been demolished in the mean
time. In early 1996, Nihoul was interested in buying two bars in
the west of the country. Because of his special interest in how
many rooms each bar had it is thought that he wanted to turn
these bars in brothels. Nihoul certainly knew Michel Lelievre
since September 1994. Lelievre met Casper Flier, the former
business partner of Annie Bouty, in jail in late 1993. Flier had
been convicted for international cocaine trafficking while
Lelievre had been locked up for trafficking XTC pills. After his
release, Lelievre went to work at a gas station owned by Flier.
In March 1995, he stayed a couple of days at the place of Annie
Bouty, and it was here that Lelievre allegedly first met Nihoul.
Lelievre and Nihoul became partners in crime in trafficking
stolen cars and drugs, with Nihoul telling Lelievre what to do.
Lelievre at some point introduced Dutroux to Nihoul, but exactly
when, and if Dutroux and Nihoul had never met before, is not
known (like X1 claimed; they also moved in the same milieu).
Dutroux and Nihoul certainly knew each other since
August-September 1995. Mikhael Diakostavrianos, Lelievre and
Dutroux went to Yugoslavia, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to
get young girls, either for their own personal pleasure or to be
placed in the Belgian prostitution through the connections of
Nihoul. On September 15, 1995, Nihoul went to gendarme officer
Gerard Vanesse with Michel Lelievre, who was wanted at the time.
He convinced Vanesse, to whom he was an informant, not to arrest
Lelievre. At the same time Nihoul was an informant to Brussels
police commissioner Albert Toch, who he knew from the Dolo.
There was continuous phone contact between Dutroux, Lelievre and
Nihoul in 1995 and 1996. In September 1995 a new phenomenon
occurred in which occupants of white Mercedesses were following
and photographing schoolgirls. Reports first came in from
Bergen, La Louviere and Charleroi, and soon another 15 reports
came in from Couvin, Thuin, Chimay and Beaumont. In the
afternoon of December 13, 1995, after a disastrous search in
Dutroux's Marcinelle home, Rene Michaux (head of spy operation
on Dutroux) met with police officer Christian Dubois in La
Louviere. This officer informed him about even more cases of
white Mercedesses following schoolgirls. Dubois also turned out
to have an informant, separate from Claude Thirault or gendarme
officer Christophe Pettens, who were known to Michaux, who had
informed Dubois that the white Mercedesses belonged to a
paedophile network centered around a company called ASCO (not
the company of the Boas family which was mentioned by X1) in
Schaarbeek or Sint-Gillis. According to the informant, the
occupants of the white Mercedesses were putting together
catalogs with pictures of children. Their clients could pick one
of these kids, which would then be kidnapped, locked up in
Belgium for a while, and then exported to eastern Europe or
Thailand. The price for each child would be 300,000 franks or
about 7500 euros. During their conversation Michaux told Dubois
about Dutroux. Dubois recalled: "I remember that Michaux
told me that Dutroux went to countries in eastern Europe... The
sums he mentioned for the kidnappings were similar to those
given to me by my informant... Even today this still keeps me
awake at night. I feel responsible. Afterwards, in 1996, I
looked into Dutroux... You just felt it. This was the man we
were looking for! I should have bought a crowbar and a gun and,
against all regulations, entered that house in Marcinelle; and
tear down everything until I had found those kids... It would
have been worth the risk [of losing my job]." Dubois
strongly felt that he and Michaux had independently stumbled on
the same network and was sure that his colleague was going to
take action. This wasn't the case, however, which later also
greatly surprised the Verwilghen Commission. Michaux made a note
of Dubois' information and simply left it there. In the mean
time, Dubois was ridiculed by his boss, commissioner Monique
Devodder. In January she even went public in a tv broadcast on
Au Nom de la Loi (famous for their later campaign
against the X-witnesses) to denounce the reports about the white
Mercedesses as unsubstantiated rumors. Dubois was then
transferred from field work to a support division, but this
didn't keep him from doing investigative work on Dutroux and
ASCO. On June 18, 1996, Dubois sent a fax to police commissioner
Daniel Lamoque informing him about the connections between ASCO,
Dutroux and the disappearance of Julie and Melissa. No reply was
given by Lamoque and he would later give a rather bizarre
testimony in which he explained that Dubois had written that the
men in the white Mercedesses were interested in "mineurs", which
he interpreted as "only boys" and therefore couldn't have had a
connection with the case of Julie and Melissa. ASCO (Achats
Services Commerces; again, not the company of the Boas family
which was mentioned by X1) later turned out to be a very
interesting company. It was incorporated on July 2, 1991,
primarily by Jean-Louis Delamotte, a friend and regular business
partner of Michel Nihoul who also went to the Dolo. Nihoul,
Bernard Weinstein, Michel Lelievre and Michele Martin (not
Dutroux) had all been spotted on a regular basis in the
immediate surroundings of the company. People in the
neighborhood had also noted that Nihoul was often surrounded by
young negro girls and had the impression that these girls were
on transit. Five mattresses and some baby milk were found inside
the company's headquarters after the it had gone bankrupt in
1994. Delamotte's company Soparauto, registered at the same
address, owned 5 white mercedesses, all with French license
plates, as had been reported. In May 1996, Lelievre and Dutroux
went to Nihoul to buy XTC, which Nihoul had stashed away (with
the approval of the gendarmerie) after ratting out one of his
crime partners. Lelievre again visited Nihoul on August 10,
three days before he and Dutroux would be arrested for
kidnapping Laetitia Delhez on August 9 (Nihoul was also spotted
at the scene of the kidnapping by at least 8 or 9 witnesses).
Lelievre received 1,000 XTC pills from Nihoul, which he expected
to sell for 4 euros a pop (a lie from Nihoul and Lelievre,
because street value of XTC was about 12 euros per pill). Nihoul
could never come up with a fitting explanation for his payment
in XTC pills to Lelievre (and Dutroux, in whose home XTC pills
were also found), leaving Bourlet and others with the suspicion
that these pills were a payment for the kidnapping of Laetitia
Delhez. However, this suspicion was never investigated by
examining magistrate Langlois. Interview with Patriek De Baets,
Humo, September 28, 1999 and October 5, 1999, 'Marc Dutroux and
Michel Nihoul: the sabotage of an investigation': "Nihoul
was a non-registered informant who had been brought in by a
gendarme officer from Dinant, the late Gerard Vanesse. Two
gendarme officers of the financial section of the BOB Brussels
maintained contact with Nihoul: Eddy Verhaegen and Bernard
Meurant. They used him as a potential informant in
investigations into fraud with telephone cards and mobile
phones. In addition Nihoul had been an informant in the Walsh
affair, which was solved by the drug section of the BOB
Brussels. It involved the trafficking of 10 kilograms of
amphetamines in which a certain Walsh, a Briton at a stopover in
Brussels, was involved. The amphetamines were confiscated, but
it later turned out that Walsh also was in the possession of
5,000 XTC pills, which had been stashed away in a car tire
located somewhere at Annie Bouty's. And those pills officially
were never found. But they later did turn up in the possession
of Michel Lelievre, the accomplice of Marc Dutroux. Did these
pills serve as a payment to informant Nihoul for his services in
this case? [Nihoul had ratted out Walsh] And have those
kidnappings of children - at least some kidnappings - been paid
for with those XTC pills?... Certainly when Eddy Suys of the
judicial police (GP), initial head of the Obelix cell, who
looked in depth at Nihoul, had found out that Nihoul was in
contact with Brussels gendarmerie officers Verhaegen and
Meurant, and that he regularly called to the BOB Brussels. Suys
found out about that last fact when he checked Nihoul's phone
calls made in the months before his arrest. Suys was planning on
doing searches at the BOB and interrogate Verhaegen and Meurant
about their contacts with Nihoul. Lieutenant-Colonel Brabant
absolutely wanted to prevent that." One of the claims of
Nihoul about the XTC pills was that he, as a police informant,
was infiltrating in the drug network that Dutroux and Lelievre
were involved with. He even dared to claim: "If Dutroux and
Lelievre weren't arrested in August 1996, that would not have
taken long anymore, because of me." Bourlet and Connerotte
have given a whole list of reasons why this claim is ridiculous,
and besides some of Nihoul's associates, most people agree.
Dutroux, Lelievre, Michele Martin were arrested on August 13,
1996, after evidence of the kidnapping of Laetitia clearly
pointed in Dutroux's way. Nihoul was arrested on August 16,
1996, after his close connection to Dutroux and Lelievre was
found out about. Annie Bouty, Nihoul's girlfriend, was arrested
on September 5, but after a few interrogations released on
October 20, 1996. In the days after the arrest of Nihoul and
Bouty, examining magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte asked the
gendarmerie if they had any files on Bouty and Nihoul. The
gendarmerie lied and told Connerotte they had nothing on them.
After a search of Nihoul's apartment, amazingly not a single
fingerprint of Nihoul had been found. Also, it turned out that
someone had been deleting files on Nihoul's computer after his
arrest. Through some of the files that remained it could be
determined that Nihoul was in contact with Thierry de Haan, a
director of the large insurance company Royale Belge who had
also been tied to the car theft case which sent Dutroux to jail
in late 1995. Interestingly, a family -father, mother and son-
recognized Nihoul and Dutroux at the location where Laetitia was
kidnapped. Luckily for Nihoul, the family's statements and
actions were completely misrepresented by the press (with help
from the gendarmerie). In February 1997, the mother was almost
hit by a car. Around the same time, the family received numerous
anonymous phone calls, were followed by a car, and men attempted
to break in into their home. The right hand of the controversial
police commissioner Georges Marnette had to support the family,
but miserably failed in that. They ultimately were forced to
back down. It took 11 days for Nihoul to come up with an alibi
for August 9, which was provided by, of all people, the lawyer
Michel Vander Elst. Vander Elst was a visitor of the Dolo and
had once been convicted for having provided false alibis for
members of the Haemers Gang, after they had kidnapped Paul
Vanden Boeynants. Initially, Vander Elst was named as one of the
masterminds of the kidnapping after investigators had found out
that the kidnappers had been in continuous contact with Vander
Elst. Vander Elst was named by X1 as among those involved in
sadistic games with young girls and as someone who visited the
ASCO torture factory. Vander Elst was a regular advisor to the
BVBA Audio Corporation since 1992, which has been linked to
pedophilic practices. Additionally, manager of the BVBA Audio
Corporation was Joseph Schulman, whose brother Charles was
married to the sister of Bernard Weinstein. Nihoul's alibi for
August 9 was largely confirmed although participants of an
evening barbecue which Nihoul attended couldn't get their story
straight. One of the inconsistencies was that Vander Elst
claimed that Nihoul came with Bouty, while all others claimed
that Nihoul came with Marleen De Cockere. It was only in
mid-1997 that a breakthrough was forced. Michel Bourlet was
contacted by family V., which had seen Nihoul in Bertrix where
Laetitia was kidnapped, and had to hear how this family wanted
to withdraw their testimonies after having been intimidated over
a period of many months. The family (again) mentioned how they
were sure that they had seen Nihoul and how they later that day
attended an evening market. That last remark prompted Bourlet to
launch an inquiry into the date when this evening market had
been organized, something which the original interviewers of the
family somehow didn't think of (they just told the family it had
indeed been organized on August 9). It turned out that the
evening market had been organized on August 8 and that this was
the date the family had seen Nihoul at the swimming pool in
Bertrix where Laetitia would be kidnapped the next day. The
details the family gave about the evening market proved they had
been there. The family was shown car wrecks for Dutroux's garden
and they picked out the Renault Trafic that they had seen on the
parking lot of the swimming pool where Laetitia was kidnapped
the next day. It was the same Renault Trafic that other
witnesses had pointed out as having seen in Bertrix on August 8
and 9 with Dutroux in or next to it. A total of at least 8
witnesses were found who had seen Nihoul on August 8 in Bertrix,
some of them in the company of Dutroux. In May 1999, Vander Elst
was interviewed again about the alibi he provided to Nihoul for
August 7 and 8 and now all of sudden claimed he had been
mistaken. He had been painting with Nihoul in an apartment in
Schaarbeek on August 6 and 7, and had not been in the company of
Nihoul on August 8. Anne Noel, who was present at the alleged
August 9 barbecue was also re-interviewed, and all of a sudden
she also was certain that Nihoul was unable to work at the
apartment on August 8. He had told Noel that he had to go
somewhere. Both Noel and Vander Elst claimed that they made a
honest mistake and blamed the investigators for not being
thorough enough in confirming their testimonies. The
investigators said they spent three full days confirming the
statements of these individuals and that at the time they all
were very sure about what they had testified. In the end this
means that Nihoul does not have an alibi for August 8, 1996, the
day he was seen all over Bertrix in the presence of Nihoul, and
one day before the abduction of Laetitia by Dutroux and
Lelievre. Dutroux and Lelievre acknowledged they had done some
reconnaissance in Bertrix before the kidnapping, but seemed to
have left out Nihoul. Dutroux was in permanent telephone contact
with Nihoul the day before the abduction of Laetitia, the day of
the abduction itself, and during the next few days. Lelievre,
Michele Martin and Dutroux all initially acknowledged that they
constituted a gang which included Nihoul. Michel Lelievre in PV
8377/98: "During that diner [in the late summer of 1995]
Dutroux explained to Nihoul and Bouty that he was able to get
stolen trucks. Dutroux was much more reserved than Nihoul. He
only talked about trafficking of weapons and trucks. There also
was talk about forged Portuguese passports." August 19,
1996, The Guardian, 'House of horrors stuns Belgium': "Mr
Nihoul allegedly told police that Mr Dutroux had spoken of
building cages to keep young girls in." Lelievre in PV
2557, August 29, 1996: "I would like to reveal other things
about Jean-Michel Nihoul, but I don't want that these
testimonies are taken up in the dossier. As I said, I fear for
my life and those around me. I remind you that Nihoul told me
the following: 'if you cross me, I will destroy you'. With those
words he made it known to me that he would kill me or have me
killed." Michele Martin, Dutroux's wife, in PV 2557, August
29, 1996: "I was afraid that they would hurt me or my kids.
With "they" I mean Marc, Jean-Michel Nihoul and his gang... I
have heard Marc personally telling Lelievre that he should bring
a girl for Michel Nihoul. If I haven't mentioned that before,
that is because I'm afraid of that gang, I mean Nihoul, Marc
Dutroux and others in Brussels. I mean well-placed individuals
who Nihoul knew. The connections of Nihoul made me fear for my
children and myself... I was afraid, because Jean-Michel Nihoul,
Marc Dutroux and Michel Lelievre were part of a gang that was
involved in all kinds of business, like drugs, pills, girls and
forged papers. I have to say that at the time of the kidnapping
of Sabine and Laetitia, Michel Nihoul, as I already stated,
often called to Sars, to my home. He was looking for Marc
Dutroux. He didn't call for me. When Nihoul tried to reach Marc
he always remained vague. I never knew why he called so often to
Marc Dutroux. Over time I became more and more convinced that
Marc Dutroux and Jean-Michel Nihoul did things that couldn't
stand the light of day and which I was not supposed to know
about. By the way, Marc told me that he went more and more to
Brussels and met an increasing number of people in light of his
activities with Michel Nihoul." Michele Martin in PV 2739,
October 9, 1996: "I believe that Marc Dutroux got to know
Jean-Michel Nihoul in late 1994, early 1995. Nihoul always gave
me the impression that he had many connections that he could
count on. Marc Dutroux told me that Nihoul had taken care of
many of Lelievre's problems: he had prevented that he was
arrested, he had worked out his fines and solved his money
problems. Marc had accurately sensed that he would benefit from
continuing to see Nihoul, because of his connections and those
of his wife, the lawyer [referring to Bouty]. The more they saw
each other, the more they opened up of course. I think that at a
certain moment a mutual trust was built. I see evidence of that
in a conversation between Lelievre and Marc that I
coincidentally heard and in which Dutroux said that they had to
bring back a girl for Nihoul. I think that Jean-Michel had
influence on Marc Dutroux. Marc often told me that he was
impressed by the connections Nihoul had." March 2, 2004,
ANP, 'Ex-wife Dutroux points to Nihoul as contractor':
"Michelle Martin, the ex-wife of Marc Dutroux, says that her
former husband kidnapped the girls Julie and Melissa at the
instructions of co-defendant Michel Nihoul. That turns out from
the official indictments from the Dutroux-case, as public
prosecutor Bourlet read out tuesday. This statement has not been
taken up in the Dutch translation of the act... Also, a witness
has spotted co-defendant Nihoul in 1995 together with Dutroux
and Lelievre in Oostende, shortly before the kidnapping of An
and Eefje." June 18, 2004, The Times, 'Murdering, raping
monster convicted at last': "The 47-year-old former
electrician [Dutroux], dubbed the Monster of Marcinelle, argued
that he had been ordered by his fellow defendant, Michel Nihoul,
to procure his young victims for a sex ring widely believed to
involve members of the country's establishment." Sentenced
to 3,5 years on December 30, 1996 for his frauds in SOS Sahel
and J.M. Nihoul et Associes. Acquitted from accusations that he
was involved in the kidnapping of girls with Dutroux on January
22, 1997. Sentenced to an additional year in jail in 1998 for
another fraud committed. First released on December 16, 1999.
Due to efforts of minister Marc Verwilghen, head of the Dutroux
Commission in 1996-1998, Nihoul was back in jail on December 24,
after not reporting with an officer who was supposed to guide
and supervise him for a while. The Justice Department set him
free again in January 2000 prompting Nihoul to file a complaint
against the government. Tried to get some financial compensation
for Verwilghen's action. Jailed in February 2004 when the
Dutroux process was about to start. Soon released for heart
problems. Sentenced to 5 years in jail in June 2004 for having
been part of a gang involved in trade in stolen cars, trade in
forged identities, drug trafficking and trafficking in humans.
Not sentenced for abduction of or trade in children. June 18,
2004, The Times, 'Dutroux guilty of child rape and murder':
"The final co-defendant, Michel Nihoul, was convicted only of
being part of a gang that smuggled drugs and people into
Belgium." February 21, 2004, The Daily Mail, 'Devil of the
Dungeon': "During the Seventies and Eighties, Nihoul, now
63, arranged sordid orgies and swapping parties for rich and
privileged Belgians. According to one key witness, whose story
will not be heard at the trial (for reasons that will emerge
later), Nihoul first met Dutroux when the latter brought drugs
to these debauched sex parties. Years later, it is suggested,
the two men hatched a plan to snatch teenage and prepubescent
girls 'to order' for supply to wealthy clients, including
politicians, members of the legal establishment, and perhaps
even the servants of Belgian royalty. If this is true, it might
explain much of the farcical 'bungling' by police and justice
officials which has undermined the Dutroux investigation. It
would also explain why, for many years after Dutroux's arrest,
Nihoul was allowed to roam free on bail, and boasted - rashly,
as it turns out - that he knew 'too much' ever to be brought to
trial. He is charged with being part of the sex-torture gang,
and heading a separate drug-trafficking and car-theft
syndicate... 'It was highly organised,' she [Louf] said. 'Big
business. A lot of money was involved.' Among the organisers,
she claimed, was Jean-Michel Nihoul. The young Dutroux had
supplied the cocaine, and sometimes brought girls." June 9,
2004, Planet.nl news, 'Last word Dutroux took three hours':
"Bourlet admitted that he had no hard evidence against Nihoul.
"We have closed the case too soon for that", he said. Nihoul was
continually in contact with Dutroux and his assistent Lelievre
during their suspicions dealings. He worked as a police
informant, but never ratted out Dutroux." Released in April
2006 after having served a third of his sentence. After his
release, Nihoul was contemplating to sue Marc Verwilghen and a
number of journalists. He also threatened to sue anyone in the
future who might be thinking of making "false testimonies". One
of the things Nihoul said was: "I will speak about the
entire case with all of its manipulations. I will speak about
all those who build their careers on this case: the politicians,
the journalists and the parents [of the missing children]." |
| Charles-Ferdinand Nothomb
|
b. 1936
|
Source(s): X3 (participated in extreme
torture parties in 1950s and 1960s with Vanden Boeynants and
royals)
Son of Pierre Nothomb, who also was a politician. Member of
Parliament from 1968 to 1995. Chairman of the PSC from 1972 to
1979, where he was followed up by Paul Vanden Boeynants. Vanden
Boeynants had been Minister of Defense and Premier of Belgium
during Nothomb's time as PSC chairman. Nothomb is often
described as having been far less influential in
behind-the-scenes 1970s politics than VdB or Baron de Bonvoisin.
Chairman of the Chamber of People's Representatives 1979-1980.
Member of the European Parliament 1979-1980. Minister of Foreign
Affairs from May 1980 to December 1981. Vice-premier and
minister of Foreign Affairs December 1981 to November 1985.
Vice-premier and minister of Internal Affairs and
Decentralization from 1985 to 1986. Chairman of the Chamber of
People's Representatives from 1988 to 1995. Minister of State
from 1995. Senator from 1995 to 1999. Chairman of the PSC from
1996 to 1998. Chairman of the European Movement Belgium
(Europese Beweging België) until at least 2007 and vice
president of the European Movement International. The history of
the European Movement from another section of PEHI: "In May
1948, the Congress of Europe was convened by the United Europe
Movement in The Hague. It was organized by Jean Monnet with the
help of Joseph Retinger; it's chairman was Winston Churchill
while Alcide de Gasperi, Paul Henri Spaak, Leon Blum, Robert
Schumann, and Konrad Adenauer, the latter soon to be chancellor
of West-Germany, were among the attendants. The congress called
for the creation of a Council of Europe, but was too large and
unwieldly to reach any decisions on this issue. It was, however,
agreed upon that the European Movement should be set up. Seven
Resolutions on Political Union were adopted at the The Hague
Congress. Resolution number seven stated: "The creation of a
United Europe must be regarded as an essential step towards the
creation of a United World." Retinger and Churchill's son-in-law
Duncan Sandys, went to America after this congress to lobby for
support for their campaign for European unity. Here they met two
key figures, William Donovan (head OSS; founder in 1947 of the
CIA; SMOM) and Allen Dulles (OSS; CIA; SMOM)... A new
organization was set up, the American Committee on United Europe
(ACUE), which would be used as a conduit for covert CIA funds,
augmented by contributions from private foundations such as the
Ford and Rockefeller foundations, to support many important
organizations in Europe that were pro-capitalist,
anti-communist, and working towards European integration. This
covert contribution never formed less than half the European
Movement's budget until the 1960s." Chairman of the
International Club Chateau Sainte-Anne since 2005, established
in 1969 as a meeting place for important Belgian and European
diplomats and other politicians. Many of its leading members are
of nobility. Two previous chairmen were Jacques Solvay and Count
de Kerchove. Among its 2000 members are Viscount Etienne
Davignon and Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (head Club of
Rome).
Nothomb is said to be an uncle of the present Marquess de
Trazegnies who owns Corroy-le-Chateau. It is one of the best
preserved medieval castles in Europe, with massive round towers
and a moat. It was built around 1270 by the Count Philippe of
Vianden and and his wife Mary of Brabant. The castle passed to
the family of Nassau-Dillenburg, princes of Orange, then to the
Nassau-Corroy, and is now inhabited by the Marquess of
Trazegnies. Corroy-le-Chateau has only been open to the public
since 1971, but as usual access is limited. The marquess is a
member of the board of directors of the Royal Club of Historic
Cities and Gardens in Belgium (Koninklijke Vereniging der
Historische Woonsteden en Tuinen van België), which has also
included Baron Albert Frère, Viscount Etienne Davignon, Prince
Alexander de Merode (former chairman), Count Ghislain d'Ursel
and Count Emmanuel de Lichtervelde. Together with Etienne
Davignon and the mayor of Venice, the Marquess de Trazegnies is
a patron of Veneziaviva, a foundation which is focused on
preserving, restoring and enhancing the value of Venice's
heritage. Trazegnies is a representative of Europa Nostra.
"Marquess de Patenos" in Sheri de Borchgrave's book 'A Dangerous
Liaison' is the Marquess de Trazegnies. On p. 251, while showing
her around the castle (there's a picture in the book), aunt
Helene says: "You would just love the parties he throws
here, ma cherie. But it will take years until your inhibitions
are dissolved enough to attend one of them. They're
unforgettably naughty." According to Sheri, her husband
Jacques had already begun introducing her to group sex parties
and had a demonic-like alter personality which could be brought
forward quite easily. It must be said that in terms of
reliability Sheri's story ranks far below the X-File
testimonies, even individually. It remains an interesting
coincidence however. |
| Yves de Prelle de la
Nieppe |
b. 1951
|
Source(s): X2 (part of the circle
of abusers of X2)
Sometimes named Viscount. In other cases just Monsieur.
According to the Dutroux files, Yves is a magistrate/substitute
in Nivelles. Member of Carnet Mondain, "the Yearbook of
distinguished Belgian families", together with Chevalier
Charles de Selliers de Moranville and wife
(accused of involvement in the child abuse network),
Jacques G. Jonet (accused of covering up
the Pinon Affair; once Otto von Habsburg's political secretary;
through his involvement with Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite
Europeenne he came at CEPIC and PDG headquarters), Baron
Guibert de Viron (a family member is
accused of trafficking drugs and children, and is married into
the de Caters family who has also been accused), Count
Henri d'Udekem d'Acoz (family married into
the royal family and are close to the Knights of Malta),
and Countess Rodolphe d'Ursel (a family
member is accused of being part of the abuse network of Baron de
Bonvoisin, to whom this family is close). |
| Jean-Paul Raemaekers |
b. 1949
|
Source(s): X1 (knew him from the
network); X4 (knew him from the network. A picture of her as a
child might have been found in the collection of Raemaekers,
although follow-up "research" was inconclusive)
Convicted for robbing his employer, an insurance company, in
1979. Convicted for fraud and extortion in 1980. His driver's
license was taken away for life after he was responsible for a
deadly traffic accident. Went to France in 1981, but had to flee
back in 1986 after the police was looking for him there. Set up
fake companies (including small banks and investment firms) and
foundations all the time, which sometimes dealt with children.
Literally always massively exaggerated his own credentials.
Acted as a parent to a 13 year old girl in 1986 (for a year),
which he had taken over from her mother. When the child later
claimed Raemaekers had raped her, it was enough for the the
mother to claim "she makes it up" to have the case
thrown out. In the late 1980s, he owned a Jaguar and two
Porsches. As a violent paedophile he was convicted in 1989 and
1995. After he was released in 1991 the doctor who had to guide
him back into society was never told that Raemaekers was a
paedophile. Raemaekers went on raping kids almost immediately.
In 1993, he was caught after a scam he pulled in which he robbed
the shareholders of his fake firm. He fled to Rotterdam in the
Netherlands and bought a sex bar. When he was arrested,
detectives found approximately 4000 videotapes in his apartment
(a very underreported fact). Only 2000 of these tapes were sent
to the BOB. Allegedly because of a lack of storage space, these
were ordered destroyed in February 1995 (finally done in June
1996), one day after Raemaekers had lost his chance to appeal
against his sentence. The other 2000 or so videos were stashed
in a warehouse in Anderlecht of judicial expert Andre Fourneau,
something which most investigators were not aware of. Allegedly
because of a lack of storage space, Fourneau wanted to get rid
of these videos and sent the collection to the curator of the
PEFL auction in Molenbeek (Brussels). On December 7, 1995, PEFL
auctioned 779 videos of Raemaekers' collection. Someone bought
them all up (in three parts) for 750 euros, a price which some
were a bit surprised about. On March 12, 1997, the BOB retrieved
the remaining 797 videos at Fourneau. Nothing unusual was found
on these tapes. Examining magistrate Jean-Claude Van Espen, who
once worked at the same law firm as Nihoul and Bouty and was
involved in sabotaging the X-investigations, headed the
investigation into the PEFL affair. The videos that ended up
with the BOB were investigated, at least to some extent. On some
of them young Asian girls were raped. On others girls from
eastern Europe. Some of the tapes showed Raemaekers raping
several children from his old neighborhood, who had never spoken
out about these facts. He had the same habit as pimps like Tony
to blame everything that went on wrong on the girls, which would
have severely impacted their confidence and self-esteem.
Raemaekers briefly spoke about having supplied kids to
paedophile parties with important officials in neighborhoods in
and around Brussels (in line with info about Tony, Dutroux,
Nihoul and other pimps). During his 1995 trial: "- Why did
you tape those [rape] scenes? - You could earn a lot of money
doing that. You could also exchange those videos. - With who? -
That happened within a large paedophile network that is active
in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. I myself was only a
small link. - Who were the others? - I do not wish to testify
about that." This was later followed with: "If I speak
then this country will explode." Psychiatrists wrote that
Raemaekers suffered from theatricality, mythomania, megalomania,
paranoia, hysteria, narcism, extreme impulsiveness, and lack of
any form of fear (which definitely was true; Raemaekers was an
extreme liar). When he got the last word on his trial on January
25, 1995, he tearfully claimed that he was sorry for all the
things he had done (which he absolutely wasn't). Then he went on
to say: "I am the patsy [definitely the wrong word] who now
goes to jail, while the bigwigs remain free... [wants to read up
a list of accomplices, but is stopped as it is a public
hearing]... Alright, I will present the names to the qualified
authorities later on. Then I still want to close this speech
with the announcement that I kept a number of videotapes in a
safe place which can prove that I am right. In addition I left a
testimony of 150 pages with a notary. These will be given to the
justice department as soon as something happens to me." The
paper he gave to the authorities included the names of one
magistrate in Brussels and 4 of his creditors (so, not very much
and not very reliable). After his sentencing, Raemaekers made
statements to BOB officers that Nancy and Nelly (young girls who
visited Raemaekers' house to play with his daughters; Nelly was
diagnosed with DID/MPS), like most other victims of the network,
were rented out by their mother. That he didn't mention her
involvement was "part of the deal". On February 1, 1995, the BOB
officers found out that on the account of Raemaekers in the
Vorst prison a number of anonymous deposits had been made. After
a brief investigation at least some of these deposits were found
out to have been made by the mother of Nancy and Nelly.
Raemaekers was questioned by the BOB about these deposits on
February 20, 1995, and explained that this money was hush money
from anonymous pedophiles or from parents who had supplied him
with their children. About the mother of Nancy and Nelly,
Raemaekers claimed that she rented out her children for 250
euros per hour to a number of pedophiles. Raemaekers also gave
the names of some of these pedophiles. He himself claimed to
have received about 10,000 euros in hush money. Around this time
the controversial Brussels police commissioner Georges Marnette
(alleged child rapist) decided to become involved. Raemaekers
provided his evidence through Jean-Paul Dumont to Marnette.
PV 115.417, October 19, 1996:
"Raemaekers interview - Period of 20/02 to 15/03/95. At the time
of the investigation of the BSR 3/SRC, Raemaekers had signaled
to his lawyers that he was going to give information on networks
of child molesters. Lawyers = JP Dumont, Marc Depaus and
Geuninkx. Dumont wanted to entrust the investigation to the
judicial police [in which Marnette is commissioner in Brussels]
to screen the information. Dumont intervened with Marnette who
is "his good friend". Marnette sent two men to the jail to
audition Raemaekers on this topic. Lawyer Depaus came with them.
The evidence had to be provided to the judicial police via
Depaus after having been filtered by Dumont." In
1996, when his relationship with the BOB was fine again,
Raemaekers said: "Nevertheless, back then, two investigators
of the judicial police had come [without leaving a trace of
their visit]. They were sent by the Brussels commissioner
Georges Marnette. He is a good friend of Jean-Paul Dumont. It
was Dumont who forbid me to have any contact with the
gendarmerie. I would only give my information to the GP, but
only after this was filtered and checked by Dumont."
Another reason that has been mentioned, in this case by Marc
Depaus, is that Raemaekers tried to arrange a lessening of his
sentence in return for information with the BOB. After this
failed, Raemaekers, through Dumont, in February-March 1995,
decided to cease cooperation with the BOB and only work with the
judicial police of Marnette instead. Marc Depaus, a young lawyer
who had been appointed by his (law) master Dumont to this case,
withdrew from the Raemaekers case after he saw that this game
was to big for him. Depaus stated: "I found out that he
[Raemaekers] had contacts with unidentified persons who didn't
leave a trace of their visits." Depaus explained that
Raemaekers already in his first talks with him explained that he
would start naming high level people if he was given a severe
sentence. According to Depaus, Dumont was very interested in the
Raemaekers case, was always available, and appeared to be the
only one Raemaekers fully trusted. Depaus: "I use the term
'hornet's nest' because the case seemed simple at the beginning.
Raemaekers was in the possession of a certain amount of
information and wanted to negotiate about that. The first
demarche consisted of checking the feasibility and modalities of
those negotiations. After my visit to examining magistrate
Vandermeersch [turned down the possibility of working with the
BOB] I began asking myself the question how much support the
investigators had from their hierarchy. On the other hand it
turned out that there was a rivalry within this police service
and at the end I found out that Raemaekers had contacts with
unidentified persons who didn't leave a trace of their visits.
All these elements made me realize that I was playing a game of
which I didn't even know half of the rules. It is in that
context that I withdrew... I don't know if the judicial police
was chosen by master Dumont because of his close contacts with
commissioner Marnette, but it is true that master Dumont and
commissioner Marnette have known each other for a long time...
Yes, I know that these documents [about child abuse by prominent
individuals, videos included) exist. If the negotiations would
have been successful, it was the intention that I would
guarantee their recovery, but at this moment I do not know where
they are located." It turned out that Raemaekers had
expected that the 'dark side' in the justice department, knowing
who he was, would come to his aid. In his own words: "After
my arrest people send me signals. They would have me medically
confined. That way I would be out in a year or so. I cannot
explain why it went so wrong and I was sentenced to life [15
years or so in reality]. All evidence pointing to the people I
worked for, which was found in 1993, had already been removed
during the investigation." Later in 1995, Raemaekers was
sent to the prison in Bergen, among detainees the most terrible
prison in Belgium. The prison was overpopulated and dirty, and
Raemaekers heard stories there about pedophiles being tortured
to death. He also claimed to have been witness to a food
poisoning, which was labeled a suicide. During his stay in the
prison Raemaekers took large amounts of sedative drugs to tune
out as much as possible. He felt betrayed. At some point in
1996, Raemaekers was transferred to the prison in Namen.
Raemaekers became quite well known in this prison for spending a
relatively large amount of money and doing all kinds of business
which nobody really knew the details. What also intrigued people
inside and outside the prison was that Raemaekers, since late
1995, had a lawyer which he didn't have to pay for: Jean-Marie
Flagothier. Flagothier, an expert in Military Law, used to be a
member of the Brabantse Reserve Officieren (BROC), which
included the son of Paul Vanden Boeynants and was tied to the
Gladio/Stay-Behind affair. To the media Flagothier claimed that
he had been able to remove Raemaekers from Dumont's sphere of
influence. Others claimed that Flagothier and Dumont were on the
same side and were manipulating Raemaekers with some unknown
purpose in mind. In early August 1996, just before the Dutroux
affair, Raemaekers got a new cell-mate, Serge Loriaux.
Raemaekers introduced himself as Alexandre de Saligny, bank
director. Loriaux later recounted a conversation between him and
Raemaekers at the time the Dutroux affair broke out on August
13: "- What do you think of this? - Pfff. - It leaves you
cold? - What people don't get excited about... To me it seems
the most normal thing in the world. - Alexandre, the country is
exploding. - All hypocrites. You know, in Belgium there are
families who are willing to sell their children for 200 or 300
thousand franks. Then you can do with them whatever you want.
They've been offered to me more than once." Loriaux:
"He continually told me that the tapes the police had shown to
his wife were nothing compared to the tapes he claims to
possess. He told me that on these tapes paedophile scenes could
be seen with important Belgian personalities. He said that if
these tapes ended up in the hands of the Justice Department this
would create an enormous shock. Judging from his words there
even were ministers involved... There's also stuff in between
there that is of such a nature that it can give him a second
sentence to life-long hard labor." Loriaux gave this
information during a BOB interview on September 21, 1996, PV
114.110. Raemaekers had even suggested to Loriaux that when he
was released he could use Raemaekers' house in Peru and start
painting there (Loriaux officially was a painter and heavily in
debt). Raemaekers also asked him if he could pick up some videos
once out of jail. After Loriaux had been separated from
Raemaekers in the aftermath of the Dutroux affair, he suggested
to the BOB officers to be placed back with Raemaekers in one
jail and work as an informant. The BOB officers were enthusiast,
but the management of the prison blocked the proposal. After the
Dutroux broke loose, Marnette voluntarily went to Neufchateau to
help (read: manipulate) with the investigation. The first thing
that Marnette did was take with him a picture from Raemaekers'
collection and claim that it was probably Dutroux who could be
seen in this picture. It turned out to be a complete fraud, and
Marnette's proposal to personally interview Raemaekers was
rejected. The picture was shown to Raemaekers at some point who
also claimed that the man in the picture (who spoke Dutch, a
language Dutroux doesn't know at all) was well known person
within the network, but was not Dutroux. Raemaekers referred to
the video from which Marnette's "Dutroux" picture was taken as
an "oldie". These were usually 8mm films who were later on
transferred to VHS. This material was still circulated within
the networks, but was usually only bought and traded by the less
well-to-do pedophiles. Raemaekers claimed he had never met
Dutroux. A BOB officer later commented: "The motive behind
it was clear. Just as more than a year before, in March 1995, he
wanted to gain control over Raemaekers, preferably by
interviewing him himself. Why we don't know. But when you see
what Marnette did a short time later with Elio Di Rupo, then at
the very least we have a strong suspicion." On September
12, 13 an 15, 1996, a number of articles appeared which detailed
how the investigation into Nihoul was sabotaged (Marnette played
a role in Nihoul's investigation), how the Justice Department
had a renewed interest in Jean-Paul Raemaekers, how Marnette had
been pushed out of the investigation and how during a break-in
by Jean-Paul Dumont an audio tape with some of Raemaekers'
statements had been stolen. There appeared to be no specific
reason why articles about Raemaekers had to appear at this point
in time, and a number of BOB officers suspected that Marnette
had been behind these reports, largely through journalist
Gilbert Dupont, suspected to have been a close friend of
Marnette. It soon turned out that no tape had been stolen by
Dumont. The reports also falsely claimed that Dumont would have
rejected to legally assist Raemaekers, because he had done this
through Marc Depaus while he himself had been heavily involved
in the Raemaekers' case from behind the scenes. In a report BOB
officers wrote: "This probably were the last interferences
of commissioner Marnette, before his leave on vacation... All
these elements confirm our earlier conclusions: Raemaekers
hinders, and it is possible that one is trying to intimidate him
[including through the newspapers]." During his September 7
and September 15 BOB interviews, during which time the strange
news articles appeared, Raemaekers spoke in detail about a 1992
sex orgy in Villa de Meise, and how about a dozen men of some
standing were involved in a sex orgy with five under aged
children. Besides Jean-Paul Dumont, he didn't know the men very
well, but remembered that they owned Jaguars, BMWs and
Mercedesses. One car had a license plate of the Lion's Club.
Raemaekers gave many details about this villa and even drew a
layout. He told that these kind of parties were regularly
organized, but he had been surprised with this one, because no
women attended. The villa returned in testimonies of a number of
other witnesses. Things changed on October 9, 1996. In the early
afternoon, Raemaekers called up his BOB interviewers, apparently
in a panic, and told how a close associate of Dumont came by and
told him he would be killed if he didn't keep his mouth shut.
When Raemaekers' interviewers, Danny Lesciauskas and Serge
Winkel, visited him just three hours later, Raemaekers
apparently was not that troubled anymore with these death
threats, and began talking (rambling) about his new cell mate,
Guy Focant, who had been locked up with Raemaekers 5 days
earlier. Focant had recently been investigated by Neufchateau,
because a victim from his home town had claimed that he had seen
Nihoul twice in the small local network of Focant.
Unfortunately, like most other victims of Focant's network, this
witness was mentally handicapped and his testimony carried no
weight (applied as a novice to a monastery a few weeks after his
testimony) . According to investigators involved in the Focant
case, Focant was known to have been in contact with a few
elderly pedophiles and corresponded with gays around the world
through mail. No evidence of a large child abuse network was
found. According to Raemaekers, Focant had told him that he had
kidnapped children for Nihoul. Over the next several weeks,
Raemaekers volunteered to act as an informant to Winkel and
Lesciauskas about his talks with Focant. He gave no more
information about his own experiences. On October 19, 1996, in
PV 115.442, Raemaekers first claimed that Focant had told him
that Elio Di Rupo and Jean-Pierre Grafe were involved in the
child abuse networks, and how these two were trying to protect
Focant and others. On October 22, Focant and Raemaekers were
joined by Francis Debuisson, a paedophile from Meux, a small
village near Namen, who had rented out his own two sons.
Raemaekers studied the pictures Debuisson had brought with him
and on November 1 told a story to his interviewers about how he
knew that Dumont in 1992 had picked up some boys from a house in
Meux. He "remembered" that this person had the surname Debuisson
and gave a description of this person's house (which he of
course had seen on Debuisson's pictures). Lesciauskas and Winkel
reacted very excited to these revelations of Raemaekers, as
Francis Debuisson, to which the evidence obviously lead, indeed
turned out to be a paedophile. Unfortunately, Winkel and
Lesciauskas forgot to check in which cell Debuisson had been
locked up. When Raemaekers in later weeks freely talked about
his cell mate Francis Debuisson the investigators still didn't
ask any questions. They continued to miss opportunity after
opportunity to unmask Raemaekers. Raemaekers also gave Debuisson
his lawyer, Jean-Marie Flagothier. In November, Raemaekers began
to relate how Focant was relieved that the digs in Jumet were
stopped (Focant allegedly reacted to the news with: "What a
bunch of idiots, they didn't went deep enough") and how he
had claimed that Jean-Michel Nihoul killed Elizabeth Brichet
(a girl that disappeared in 1989 and was
found on July 3, 2004 on the domain of Chateau de Sautou, after
a confession of Michel Fourniret). These digs in Jumet
had begun in early October after Lelievre briefly mentioned some
story about Dutroux digging for coal. August 17, 1996, PV
100.221, small note in Lelievre interrogation: "Dutroux is
digging at J. Destree street [in suburb of Charleroi]. He digs
deep, because he said to have found coal [relatively close to
surface]." Others, like Michelle Martin, confirmed
Dutroux's interest in coal and somehow the old coal mine in
Jumet, a district of Charleroi, became a possible location where
Dutroux might have buried some of his victims. After several
weeks of digging nothing was found and this aspect of the
investigation was closed down. That is, until Raemaekers brought
up the topic again. Raemaekers, November 15, 1996, PV 117.123:
"I then found out that she was dead, but that her death was
the result of a job that went bad. Her body is located in
Belgium, more precisely in a mine. Because of the fact that the
previous day it had been said on Bel RTL [Call RTL] that the
digs were undertaken in a mine [Jumet] and that they have been
stopped, I concluded that it exactly was that mine entrance
where she must have been buried, but that the investigators
didn't dug deep enough... During the conversation I noticed that
it was odd that the little Ken had never been found, while his
sister was found drowned. He [Focant] immediately answered:
"Yes, he is buried with Elizabeth". I asked, in the absence of
Debuisson, if he knew about other kidnapped children in the
Netherlands. He affirmed this to me, but without going in
details." Raemaekers, November 23, 1996, PV 117.125:
"On November 15 I learned that the bodies are located close to
the location of the last digs... In fact, in an effort to learn
more I said that the searches were done in the Charleroi region.
Guy Focant then answered that I was mistaken and that that was
happening in Jumet... He talked about a mine entrance with an
elevator through which the miners used to descend. Thereafter he
gave a description of the location where the bodies were by
drawing a small layout on a piece of paper, which I then redrew
in my agenda from my memory." Raemaekers gave a whole bunch
of other information to his interviewers, to Winkel and
Lesciauskas and later to BOB officers in Brussels. Because of
this information the digs in Jumet were restarted on December
12, 1996, and interestingly would continue with the full support
of the media, the same media that ridiculed the X-witnesses. On
December 14, Debuisson also was finally asked some questions
about Focant by the judicial police in Brussels. Although very
reluctant to give any information, the interrogators managed to
extract the following testimony from him: "He [Focant]
explained that one, to find them, had to dig several feet
further, beyond the collapse. He also said that the detection
devices of that British policeman John Benett were useless, as
the ground was to fatty because of the coal. Focant said that he
was sure that the bodies of Elizabeth Brichet and Ken Heyrman
were located in Jumet, together with those of other children he
didn't mention the name of... I have not heard him say that he
went to hide bodies himself... At a certain moment I also heard
him say that he had never been in Jumet. Yeah, that was a bit
strange indeed. But how could I know that what was said in that
cell was of any importance to the investigation? To me it seemed
more like small talk to counter the boredom." The digs in
Jumet went on for months without anything being found. Criticism
rose and on May 5, 1997, Raemaekers, Focant and Debuisson (who
was living at home again with his two sons) were taken on site.
Raemaekers began dancing around and shouted that this was the
location where the children were buried. Focant explained that
he had never been here and that he had no idea that this whole
dig was based on his alleged confessions to Raemaekers.
Debuisson said he had never been here and that he never took
anything serious that was said by Raemaekers and Focant in his
cell, and he still didn't. Further statements from Focant and
Raemaekers also completely contradicted each other. May 13,
1997, press notification of Guy Focant: "During my stay in
the same cell as Raemaekers this person, bizarrely enough, was
continually taken away to be questioned. He said that he helped
the investigators to dismantle a network of pedophiles that
operated in the highest circles of society... I didn't worry
about the exact and detailed questions he asked me about the
coal mine in Jumet. He also asked those questions to a guard who
lived in this region... Raemaekers keeps making false
accusations, like I would have told him certain things. I have
been asked thousands of questions. What can I tell, as this is
the first time I saw a coal mine?... In the mean time, and for
reasons I am not aware of, the digs in Jumet continue based on
false accusations. In all likelihood the money has been wasted
and my life is in danger." The digs in Jumet were finally
cancelled on May 27, 1997. The media never talked about this
event as possibly being one of the red herrings to discredit
talk about large high level paedophile networks. Raemaekers
(voluntary & militant) lawyer, Jean-Marie Flagothier, is
suspected by some to have played a crucial role in this affair.
Claude Jasselette, the cell mate of Raemaekers in late 1996 and
early 1997, explained (April 14, 1997, to GP in Namen): "The
lawyer of Raemaekers certainly is part of the scheme... The only
time in the consulting room that I was given the chance to meet
a lawyer it was Flagothier. In the presence of Raemaekers, which
is totally illegal. It is therefore that I can say that master
Flaghotier orally as well as by letter provides intelligence to
Raemaekers. I also would like to state that Raemaekers sees his
lawyer weekly and practically always returns with documents,
photocopies and intelligence concerning all his allegations. He
diligently writes this information in his small blue notepad."
Dumont and Marnette appear to have also been involved in this
manipulation. Besides the continuous involvement of these two
alleged pedophiles with Raemaekers, one of the strongest pieces
of evidence is the media campaign against Elio Di Rupo and
Jean-Pierre Grafe, which started on November 16, a month after
Raemaekers had begun accusing Elio Di Rupo
and Jean-Pierre Grafe in his testimonies. While
Raemaekers was testifying about these two men, Marnette was
manipulating Oliver Trusgnach into
claiming that he was abused as a minor by these same two men.
This testimony was then conveniently leaked to press, at the
same time that De Baets and his team were forced to participate
in this bogus investigation. This resulted
in Trusgnach being discredited, to some extent De Baets also,
and hopefully would result in a more sceptical reception of the
X witnesses by the general public, if their story ever came out.
An anonymous BOB officer commented: "The motive behind it
was clear [why Marnette wanted to link Raemaekers to the Dutroux
case]. Just as more than a year before, in March 1995, he wanted
to gain control over Raemaekers, preferably by interviewing him
himself. Why we don't know. But when you see what Marnette did a
short time later with Elio Di Rupo, then at the very least we
have a strong suspicion." Connerotte and De Baets
have both spoken out that the investigation was heavily
manipulated and that there was an effort to discredit the X
witnesses. They specifically mentioned Abrasax, Jumet and the Di
Rupo cases. Connerotte was not interested in pursuing
Raemaekers' claims about Focant, which started on October 9, to
any extent. This immediately changed after Langlois took over
from him on October 14. December 3, 2002, Annemie Bulte for
Humo, 'War in Neufchateau: examining magistrate Connerotte
speaks about the Dutroux dossier for the first time'
(Connerotte): "I regularly and much earlier complained about
those terrible circumstances in which I had to work in the
Dutroux case... How could one, single, understaffed examining
judge work through such heaps of information and separate the
important things from the unimportant?... I experienced those
circumstances as a form of pressure... I definitely did not
consider it impossible that I was being manipulated. We
continually received information about all kinds of bizarre
leads. Those then received a lot of media attention, but to us
meant nothing but time loss... Just think about the Abrasax case
and the digs in Jumet. If I remember correctly, the first leads
in those two cases were already put under my nose in the very
beginning of the investigation. Afterwards precisely Abrasax and
Jumet were used by the media as an argument to say that the
whole investigation was manipulated and pointed towards false
leads [by low level pedophiles as Raemaekers and "believing"
investigators]. I experienced the same thing in the Cools case,
in which the police began to manipulate and was wholeheartedly
supported by the media." Interview with Patrick De Baets,
Humo, September 28, 1999 and October 5, 1999, 'Marc Dutroux and
Michel Nihoul: the sabotage of an investigation': "I think
that there was a higher plan. The population had to get the
message: "There's a witch hunt going on in this country, the
investigation is derailing, they've gone crazy in Neufchateau.
Let's stop going after Nihoul." And even more important was the
finger pointing to the politicians: "You again were probably
responsible! Chasing politicians, bringing down bigwigs, that's
the hobby of men such as De Baets. So now close the ranks as
soon possible."... And why were we brought into that ludicrous
Di Rupo investigation? Because we were working on the well-known
X-witnesses. By discrediting me and my team through the Di Rupo
case, one actually wanted to discredit the testimonies of the
Xs... Again, take examining magistrate Van Espen: he walked in
very tight shoes, because Nihoul had fingered him to members the
23th brigade of the judicial police as the person who always
stood ready to protect him and his friends as legal trouble was
around the corner... And all of a sudden Regina Louf pointed to
individuals who Van Espen knew only all too well. This could
severely compromise him. So Van Espen also benefited from us
being discredited in the Di Ripo case." Even Gregory
Antipine, Marnette's sidekick in the Trusgnach manipulation,
told an investigating committee that he believed Marnette had
been manipulating. Some time thereafter Antipine committed
suicide. |
| Geo Raspe |
b. 1948
|
Source(s): X2 (attended parties
where X2 was abused)
Judge in Brussels. Councillor at the Cour d'Appel de
Bruxelles (Court of Appeals in Brussels), according to Dutroux
X-Files. Chairman of the 13th chamber of the Court of Appeals in
Brussels. |
| Frans Reyniers |
-
|
Source(s): New in 2008: Declaration
of Dany Lefrant to the Belgian Judiciary, October 13, 199x,
(copy for Neufchateau cell): "Pink Ballets [normally refers to
underaged children being present] with STIERS Steeve, VAN DEN
BROECK Franck, the Baron Bonvoisin, SPITAELS Guy, Frans
Reyneers, bar le cancan [the bar where Elio Di Rupo, according
to Cancan's owners, went to pick up students]. This happened
more or less 7 years ago."; known to have been a visitor of Les
Atrebates, where Nihoul and others went for orgies (said to have
involved minors on some occasions)
Brussels police commissioner who worked closely with Georges
Marnette (the person who spread disinformation to frustrate the
X witnesses investigation). Assisted in the Gang of Nijvel
investigation. Later convicted criminal. Regularly visited Les
Atrébates and later The Dolo, Nihoul's favorite hangouts, for
orgies, according to some sometimes involving minors. 1999,
Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulté, and Douglas De
Coninck, 'De X-dossiers', p. 123-124: "The history of The
Dolo begins in 1975. At that point, in Etterbeek's
Atrebatenstraat 154, in an ordinary mansion at the first floor,
a private club is opened in which group sex and partner swapping
was practiced. The owners are a couple, Michel Forgeot, an
immigrated Frenchman, and Dolores Bara. The club is only
accessible to members - there is no facia - and operates under
different names: vzw ACH, vzw MI-DO, APV. The attendants speak
of 'Les Atrebates' for convenience. Nihoul is a regular customer
since 1981 and soon becomes good pals with Forgeot and Bara.
Forgeot will always deny that minors also attended - the age of
the customers has always been carefully checked at the entrance.
Nevertheless, the club is closed in 1983 by the Brussels BOB for
"encouraging debauchery". The Brussels GP [judicial police] has
also visited several times, but that was always without results,
Michel Forgeot later says. That doesn't surprise him. At the
time, the Brussels GP [judicial police] commissioner Georges
Marnette, together with his colleague Frans Reyniers, is one of
the regular clients of the club. Also GP'er Guy Collignon was
often present. 'I think it's quite strange that Mr. Marnette
headed an investigation into The Dolo, while he himself came to
the orgies there', says Forgeot. 'I personally saw him taking
part in the orgies.'" In 1990, examining magistrate Freddy
Troch reopened some of the Gang of Nijvel documents and began to
look into its political connections. Two of the persons he
became very interested in as a result were Frans Reyniers and
Baron de Bonvoisin. Troch was warned and subsequently kicked off
the case by Melchior Wathelet, a violent child abuser together
with Baron de Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants, according to
X1 and others. Along with Georges Marnette and Benoit Dejemeppe,
Reyniers was involved in frustrating investigations into the
fascist underground and Group G. 1998, Stef Janssens, 'De namen
uit de doofpot' ('The names from the cover up'), p. 109-110,
112-113: "On April 25 and 28, 1997, the members of the mixed
Delta-cell of examining magistrate Troch, consisting of gendarme
officers and members of the judicial police, had testified
extensively in front of the Gang Commission. Gendarme officers
Sack and Collewaert and GPP officer Van Rie of the Brussels
police went in detail about their conflicts with the group
Reyniers-Marnette-Zimmer of the Brussels judicial police:
'Another case we would like the to take a look at is a peculiar
one. It pertains to the case which was referred to by examining
magistrate Bulthe as the trio Reyniers-Marnette-Zimmer
[coincidentally, all three have been directly or closely
indirectly linked to child abuse]. Every time we came into
contact with these people there almost occurred an incident. We
concluded that Reyniers had information about the possible
involvement of Papadopoulos and Philippe De Staercke in the
facts in Wilsere in March 1985; about the post office robbery in
Verviers with an Uzi, which had been stolen in Wilsele, and
about the robberies in Overijse and Aalst of the Gang of Nijvel.
That information hasn't reached us... About the involvement of
the extreme-right in the gendarmerie - and more exactly within
the Group G - we did extensive investigations. We conducted a
search at just about every gendarme officer who had been
involved in that. Those individuals were also thoroughly
questioned. At the moment we took on a GPP'er [judicial police
officer], an ex-gendarme officer and a friend of Lekeu [Bernard
Devillet], as a possible suspect in Group G, there came a pretty
strong reaction from the judicial police in Brussels. At that
moment there came an interference in our investigation.' [Troch
confirmed the interference with support of Dejemeppe]..."
Went to the fascist Jonathan Club. 1998, Stef Janssens, 'De
namen uit de doofpot' ('The names from the cover up'), p.
114-115: "In October 1983, members of the GPP-Liege made a
confidential report about the Jonathan club, in which sex
parties... were organized and caught on camera. A witness
related that this club was frequented by the members of the
Front de la Jeunesses, among them Dossogne, the ex-assistant
prison director Jean Bultot and well known Brussels gangsters.
Also Lekeu and arms trafficker Darville of the Haemers gang came
here, just as Fredo Godfroid (Brussels police), the local
Sint-Gillis police and Van Esbroeck of the De Staerke gang. The
boss of the Jonathan was Pierre-Paul [Pepe] De Rycke, member of
the extreme-right Parti des Forces Nouvelles (set up by Emile
Lecerf and de Bonvoisin). On February 24, 1992, De Rycke
supplied the membership list of his club to the Gang cell Jumet
of Charleroi. [Gendarme colonel] Sack revealed to the Gang
Commission: 'Frans Reyniers [police commissioner and close
associate of Georges Marnette] was regularly seen in the
Jonathan. This club was managed by Pierre-Paul De Rycke, a very
good friend of Bultot. Francis Dossogne once arranged the
security of this club, after there had been some threats.'...
According to the organigramme of the Delta-group of
Dendermonde,... Bouhouche... came in the Jonathan."
Acquainted with Jean-Paul Dumont, the CEPIC-PSC lawyer accused
of child abuse, who also once acted as a lawyer to Reyniers.
1998, Stef Janssens, 'De namen uit de doofpot' ('The names from
the cover up'), p. 145, 177: "The Dutroux Report regularly
points to certain lawyers who arranged all kinds of business for
Nihoul... With these the CEPIC lawyers Jean-Paul Dumont and
Philippe Deleuze are meant. Dumont was a close friend of Roger
Boas... Dumont had a certain type of customers: Dossogne,
Latinus, Bouhouche, labour broker Bongiorno, also Reyniers and
still others... [Eric] Lammers [yet another fascist militant]
had managed to slip up during the hearing to his lawyer Jean
Paul Dumont in the presence of the victim's lawyer. He had
recreated the sound the victim made while his throat was being
slit. The court ordered the jury not to take this into
consideration, as this fell under the confidentiality between
client and lawyer. That's how Lammers still got acquitted... At
the proces in 1986 dealing with cocaine parties at the Mirano,
Alewaeters was represented by the lawyers Deleuze and [Didier]
De Quevy, who worked together with Dumont. According to the
Dutroux Report, it appears to have been Jean-Paul Dumont who
maintained contact with Cryns... Nihoul and Deleuze were both
involved in a scam around an underaged kid, of which lawyer
Deleuze had been given custody." |
| Prince Philippe de Riquet |
unknown
|
Source(s): X2 (Described being
present at Chateau de Chimay when she heard young children
screaming outside in the woods. They were being hunted. X2 also
described a meeting she was taken to where Baron de Bonvoisin,
Count d'Ursel, Oliver Castiaux, two brothers of the de Merode
family, and the Prince and Princess of Chimay were present.)
Philippe de Riquet is the 22nd Prince of Chimay since 1980,
heading one of the eight families that are still members of the
Blue Salon. President and resident of Chateau de Chimay, which
is surrounded by 130 ha. or 321 acres of private land. Hunts on
young children have been organized in the woods surrounding this
castle, according to X2's testimonies. Chateau de Chimay is in
south-central Belgium, close to the French border and about 80
kilometers west from Chateau des Amerois. Member of Cercle de
Wallonië, together with many elite members of Belgian Society.
Created the Chimay International Baroque Singing Competition in
1991. Another obscure noble in general. The Chimay family is
closely related to the de Croy family, of which one branch is
also in the Blue Salon. The House of Croy was an international
family of European mediatized nobility which held a seat in the
Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of
Imperial Princes in 1594. Among the more illustrious members of
the House of Croÿ were two bishops-dukes of Cambrai; two
cardinals (one being also the Archbishop of Toledo and another
being the Archbishop of Rouen); five bishops; one Prince of
Masovia; one Grand-Bouteiller, Grand-Maitre and Marshal of
France; one Grand Equerry of the King of Spain; several imperial
field marshals and twenty generals; a couple of governors of the
Netherlands; one Russian Field-Marshal; numerous ambassadors and
senators in France, Austria, Belgium; and thirty two knights of
the Order of the Golden Fleece. |
| Jean-Pierre van Rossem |
b. 1945
|
Source(s): X2 (Present at sex parties in a
castle near Eindhoven in the Netherlands, together with
Jean-Paul Dumont, Baron de Bonvoisin and many others)
Studied economics, math and physics at the University of Gent
1963-1967. In jail for fraud 1973-1977. Got over his heroin
addiction while in prison. Created a software program,
Moneytron, which allegedly could quite accurately predict the
money market. Soon billions of dollars were brought to his small
investment company by the wealthiest businessmen around the
world. Over a period of 10 years in the 1980s and early 1990s,
Moneytron had an average return on investments of 18 to 25% and
Rossem gained a fortune of several hundred million dollars. His
wife, Nicole Annys, died in 1989 and van Rossem suspected foul
play. He froze her body in a specially-prepared grave until
someone would perform an autopsy. This never happened as after a
few years a defect occurred and the body began to decompose. Set
up a libertarian party and won three seats in parliament in
1991. Sentenced to 5 years in jail in 1991 for massive financial
fraud (released after about a third of the sentence, which is
normal in Belgium). Most of his clients didn't testify against
him as a lot of it was dirty money. Wrote a book in jail which
became a best-seller. Shouted 'Vive la République!' in 1993 when
King Albert II was crowned. This was rerun of the 1951 crowning
of King Baudouin, during which Julien Lahaut, chairman of the
communist party, shouted the same thing (which got him killed by
a NATO terrorist). Even though at one point he counted the
Belgian royal family among his clients, van Rossem (as the only
one in this list) has always been very opposed to the financial
establishment of Belgium. Van Rossem: "I wanted to become
the first Belgian Fortune-billionaire and through that take my
revenge on all those rich bastards who I made innumerable times
more rich. I didn't care about the money, really; I just wanted
to show that a leftist rascal like me also could make it to the
top of the capitalist system." Generally seen as an
eccentric, anarchist con man who looks very much like a cult
leader. However, he made a lot of sensible comments in recent
years (all translated from Dutch):
"How many people have died from bird flu worldwide? 100?
200? Is that now a Pandemic? Who by the way has invented that
ridiculous word?... It should be clear by now to everyone who's
behind that: that's the pharmaceutical industry. They see their
chance to sell millions of vaccines, of which we don't even know
if they work. They spread fear to make a lot of money from
it..."
"It irritates me to no end that a moron like Bush wants
to control the whole world. I also think it's a travesty that no
one reacts to that. That has to do with a misplaced feeling of
loyalty to a country that freed us 60 years ago from Hitler and
the fascists."
"You know what it is? I think the islam is a retarded
religion, which doesn't show any respect for women. All
religions are poison, but the islam is the worst of all."
Van Rossem in the Dutch documentary 'Het Grote Complot - Part
3', broadcasted on January 24, 2004:
"The whole third world is indebted to the banks. And it
really is the financial power clique that keeps these countries
poor. Why does poverty continue? Because it has a purpose."
"It is only the institutional investors, the really big
banks, the really big concerns, who always win, because the
stock markets are a zero-sum game. What one person wins, the
other loses. And the winners always are the institutional
investors. And the institutional investors have a buddy
everywhere. I will give an example: the very serious magazine
Scientific in America is going to publish an article that
Johnson & Johnson, that's the Belgian Janssen Pharmaceutics, has
found a remedy against AIDS. At that moment the institutional
investors get a tip: the day after tomorrow that article is
going to appear... So these [institutional investors] buy call
options en masse. They speculate a la hausse... [question asked:
foreknowledge, isn't that illegal?]... Ah, but that's only on
paper! Everybody trades with foreknowledge. Of course."
"As long as you bring money into Switzerland you have no
problems at all. They do not ask: "How did you earn that?" They
do not ask: "Is that black, gray or white money?" Just bring it
in, then you are a lovely boy. And at the moment I wanted to
take back a good chunk of that money they came up with all these
problems... It's not that way anymore now, but back then people
went there with whole steel coffins full of money. I remember
that all the money of the Russian mafia was there; all the money
of the Italian mafia was there; all the money of the Bolivian
mafia was there; etc. So I think that Switzerland remains the
most criminal state among the criminal states. And when Bush
says, "I'm going to start a war against terror", then start a
war against Switzerland. You don't need weapons for that... but
there it is again, the self-interests, because his money is
likely to be at some place also, the money that cannot be seen."
About 9/11: "I used to be a client of the Bahrain Middle
East Bank, B&B Bank in Geneve. Very decent investment bank. I
was there... What's his name again, that leader of Al-Qaeda?...
Bin Laden. Check this out: The year '88, who back then was one
of the bankers at B&B? That was Usama Bin Laden. He didn't walk
there with a robe that fell to the ground. He was a manager with
a nice suit and a tie. I just find it so unlikely that he became
a religious fanatic all of a sudden... I don't know what's
behind that... There's always more than meets the eye. One thing
is clear to me. I am still an investment specialist. I don't
understand how two days before the attack on the twin towers
there was I don't how much speculation by ten-some institutional
investors who speculated a la bausse against the airline
companies; who speculated a la bausse against the insurance
companies... in the mean time we know that the CIA had knowledge
[about the coming attack]. To say that it was a conspiracy, I
don't know the details, but it also smart not to be naive... No,
I think there have been power cliques who have been manipulating
with no other purpose then to make money; because a lot of money
has been made [from that event]. Also the fear that has been
installed again; that enormous fear with the American public;
and fear is a blessing for political leaders."
PV 117.322, December 16, 1996 (Eddy Verhaeghen): "Loose
translation of an extract of the book 'Hoe kom ik van de
grond?', written by Jean-Pierre van Rossem [in 1993], in which
he speaks about snuff movies. Drawing of a man in front of a
girl, cutting her to pieces while saying "I like small girls".
The writer and Belgian film maker Pierre Platteau
[had a very violent father who was a member
of the fascist Flemish Militant Order and involved in local
politics] would be working on a TV series on snuff-movies
[apparently never made it to the tv].
Speaks about kidnapping of children for rape at the Belgo-Dutch
border. Such photos or movies would be sold in Hulst and Putte
[two small towns about 60 km or 40 miles
apart, the former just across the border in the Netherlands, and
the latter in Belgium. Antwerp is right in between them]
(kept in the backroom of a shop). Description of some paedophile
videos that one can find there (rape - torture - murder). Van
Rossum would have a contact in Breda who knows where these
movies are shot. Van Rossum would have submitted all info in the
mailbox of the court of Breda." |
| Princess Liliane Baels de
Rethy of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
1916-2002
|
Source(s): Mentioned by X2 as told
to her by Eva, a girl that disappeared after being taken into a
SM chamber; PV 151.419, about X2's Liliane statement: "... see
the statement of WAETERSCHOOT with regard to bodies that would
have been buried in the Park of a castle. LILIANNE could be
Lilianne de RETHY and the castle mentioned by WAET."; X3 has
given descriptions of a place and a person that might also have
been Chateau d'Argenteuil and Liliane.
Daughter of a governor of West-Flanders. Second wife of King
Leopold III since 1941, after the king's first wife had died.
Mother of Prince Alexander (b. 1942). Stepmother of King
Baudouin and King Albert II. King Leopold III abdicated in favor
of his son Baudouin in 1951 over the controversy that he
remained in his country during WWII and visited Hitler in
Germany. Created the Cardiology Foundation in 1958 to promote
new forms of treatment for cardiovascular diseases. Liliane
financed a number of Belgian children who needed to go to
America for operations, and in 1961 she inaugurated a new
cardiac research laboratory at the Hospital Saint-Pierre in
Brussels. This interest was inspired by a life-saving operation
performed on her son in Boston. The couple went to live in
Chateau d'Argenteuil, close to Brussels and Waterloo, in 1960,
which is where they resided for the rest of their lives. Leopold
died in 1983, after which Liliane withdrew completely from
public life. Fluent in English, French, German and Dutch. In
2004, Chateau d'Argenteuil was acquired by Jean-Marie Delwart,
whose family are shareholders in Solvay and who was a former
chairman of La Floridienne. President Putin tried to buy the
domain from Delwart soon after, but failed. |
| Prince Charles of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
1903-1983
|
Source(s): X3 (participated in extreme
torture parties in 1950s and 1960s); X3 also mentioned "King
Albert" although from the PV summaries it does not become clear
whether this was Albert I or Albert II
Second son of King Albert I of Belgium and Queen Elizabeth of
Bavaria. King Albert I bestowed the title of Count of Flanders
on Prince Charles in 1910. Educated in London and joined several
the Royal Naval Colleges in the course of his early life. Spent
periods on board various British warships. Regent of Belgium
from 1944 to 1950, because his elder brother King Leopold III
was seen as a collaborator of the Nazis. During his regency
Belgium received the Marshall Aid, the Benelux was formed, and
Belgium became member of both the UN and NATO. Withdrew from
public life in 1950, when Leopold III's son Baudouin became
official king, and stayed mainly in his village on the royal
estate at Raversijde (Ostend). He drew and painted, and had many
contacts with artistic circles. |
| King Baudouin of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
1930-1993
|
Source(s): X3 (participated in extreme
torture parties in 1950s and 1960s); X3 also mentioned "King
Albert" although from the PV summaries it does not become clear
whether this was Albert I or Albert II
HRH King Baudouin of Belgium from 1951 to 1993. Eldest son of
King Leopold III, who had to step down from the throne in 1951,
after the Belgian people accused him of having gone along too
willingly with the Nazi occupation. Married Fabiola de Mora y
Aragón in 1960, who came from a Spanish noble family on good
terms with Franco. After the marriage the couple would be
criticized for occasionally visiting Franco. Fabiola couldn't
get children so the couple decided to "love more of all the
other children". His wife withdrew to the Castle of Stuyvenberg
after his death. |
| King Albert II of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
b. 1934
|
Source(s): 1979 Pinon Affair
(present at parties where underage girls were abused.
Apparently, Albert only came when these children were present);
X3 also mentioned "King Albert" although from the PV
summaries it does not become clear whether this was Albert I or
Albert II
HRH King Albert II of Belgium since 1993. Younger son of King
Leopold III (1901-1983). Great grandson of the builder of
Chateau des Amerois, Count Phillipe von Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha,
the Count of Flanders (1837-1905). Philippe's older brother,
King Leopold II (1835-1909), was the son of the first king of
Belgium after the 1830 revolution. Leopold II privately owned
Congo during the latter part of the 19th century and plundered
it for its resources. Millions of Congolese were maimed or died
in the process. During this time he was a competitor of Cecil
Rhodes and other imperialists while his own adventures in Congo
were financed by Baron Leon Lambert, who in turn was an agent of
the Rothschilds, just as Cecil Rhodes. September 20, 1998, the
Portland Oregonian, 'Heart of Darkness' (discusses a book of
Adam Hochschild): "The rubber and ivory belonged to one man,
Leopold II, the king of Belgium. The part of the Congo where the
goods came from, an area as large as the United States east of
the Mississippi River, also belonged to Leopold. Not to the
Belgian government or its people but to him, personally. Through
bribery, chicanery, brute force and an almost supernatural sense
of cunning, Leopold had acquired an enormous private colony in
Africa and gotten the rest of the world to accept his claim as
legally binding. (The United States was the first country to
sign a treaty recognizing Leopold's right to the Congo.) A
constitutional monarch with limited powers in Belgium, Leopold
wanted a colony, any colony, all his own... Leopold never
visited the Congo and spent most of his profits from ivory and
rubber, estimated in the billions, on palaces and greenhouses in
Belgium, on property in the French Riviera, and on his
16-year-old mistress... The Congo ran on slave labor, with
Leopold's full knowledge. His employees and his private army,
mostly Belgians, forced the local population into slavery as
porters, road and railroad builders, ivory hunters and rubber
gatherers. A typical tactic was to burn down a village and
kidnap the women and hold them until the men agreed to whatever
demands were made of them. Discipline was arbitrary, capricious
and often fatal. Hochschild estimates that the population of the
Congo dropped by about 10 million people because of murder,
starvation, exhaustion, exposure, disease and lowered birth
rates during Leopold's reign of terror, which lasted from the
early 1880s until after his death in 1909... The Congo finally
became independent of Belgium in 1960. Its first elected leader,
Patrice Lumumba, was assassinated with CIA [and Belgian]
assistance in 1961. His replacement, Mobutu Sese Seko, renamed
the country Zaire and ruled it as a dictator until being
overthrown in 1997. The country is now in a state of anarchy and
civil war." Distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II.
King Albert II married Queen Paola, who is of Italian and
Belgian descent. Their eldest son, Prince Philippe, the Duke of
Brabant, married Princess Mathilde d'Udekem d'Acoz, a known
member of the Knights of Malta. King Albert II went to the Swiss
private school Institut Le Rosey. As crown prince, Albert was
president of the Belgian Institute for Foreign Trade. This meant
that he accompanied delegations of Belgian businessmen on
promotional trips abroad. Albert accompanied three, sometimes
four, of these trade missions a year. One trade expedition was
to haunt Albert for decades to come. On June 14, 1976,
Eurosystem Hospitalier (ESH), a subsidiary of the Société
Générale (SG) since 1974, which was a holding company partly
owned by the Belgian royal family, entered into a large contract
worth about 1 billion euros with the Saudi authorities to build
and exploit hospitals for the Saudi National Guard (guards the
oil interests in the region). The National Guard were trained by
NATO and had to buy modern weapon systems. The contract was the
result of a trade mission to Saudi-Arabia led by Albert in
October 1975. The whole ESH deal fell into the water in 1979,
because more than 25% of the total deal involved bribes and
commissions. On top of that, it was reported that the
prostitutes of Fortunato Israel also served King Albert and the
Saudi princes during their business trips. In 1981, Société
Générale made arrangements to finish the project, which
succeeded. In addition, the Saudis each paid Alexander Haig
(representing Reagan) and Margaret Thatcher a further $2,5
billion. Albert succeeded his elder brother Baudouin as king in
1993. March 5, 2004, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard for the Telegraph,
' Judge tells of murder plots to block Dutroux investigation': "In
January 1996 Judge Connerotte wrote to King Albert alleging that
his investigations into crime networks were being blocked
because suspects "apparently enjoyed serious protection". He
went on to say that the "dysfunctional judiciary" was breaking
down as mafia groups took secret control of the "key
institutions of the country". His enemies fought back after he
was pulled off the case. He was formally accused, along with two
key detectives, of manipulating testimony, forgery, and illegal
leaks. The inquiries took up three years, drawing off police
energy while the main Dutroux case languished. In the end, the
three were cleared of all charges." |
| Prince Laurent of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
b. 1963
|
Source(s): X2 (masturbated and ejaculated
in a dish of bolognaise sauce in the presence of
nobility accused of child abuse; present at child abuse parties
at the Mirano, but like his older brother, only masturbated)
Younger son of King Albert II and Queen Paola, and brother of
Prince Filip. His godparents are Don Bettino Rocasoli and
Duchess Sophie von Arenberg. Very involved with animal welfare
and the environment. President of the Royal Institute for the
Sustainable Management of Natural Resources and the Promotion of
Clean Technologies. President of the Prince Laurent Foundation
for the Welfare of Domestic and Wild Animals. Ambassador for
World Harvest, a Washington, D.C. based agricultural research
association. There are rumors that Aldo Vastapane is the real
father of Prince Laurent, normally considered the youngest son
of King Albert II and Queen Paola. Present in 2004 when the
Charter de Merode was signed in the Abbey of Averbode in
which the private Merode forest was transferred to the
government. |
| Guy Spitaels |
b. 1931
|
Source(s): New in 2008: Declaration of
Dany Lefrant to the Belgian Judiciary, October 13, 199x, (copy
for Neufchateau cell): "Pink Ballets [normally refers to
underaged children being present] with STIERS Steeve, VAN DEN
BROECK Franck, the Baron Bonvoisin, SPITAELS Guy, Frans
Reyneers, bar le cancan [the bar where Elio Di Rupo, according
to Cancan's owners, went to pick up students]. This happened
more or less 7 years ago."
Graduated in 1957 in political and social sciences at the
Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL). Abondoned his Catholic
faith, became a freemason, and went to the Université Libre de
Bruxelles (ULB). Investigator and later director of the Solvay
Institute for Sociology at the ULB from 1958 to 1968. Professor
at the ULB from 1966 to 1971, and still today a honorary
professor. Joined the Parti Socialiste in the early 1960s. In
1974 Spitaels became Senator, in 1977 mayor of Ath (Aat) and
Minister of Labor (in the government Tindemens IV) and after
that Vanden Boeynants II). In 1979 Spitaels became vice prime
minister in the successive administrations Martens I, II, III,
IV (until 1981, first as minister of Labor, later of Traffic).
Became chairman of the Parti Socialiste in 1981. Nominated
Minister of State in 1983. The Parti Socialiste joined the
government of Martens VIII in 1987 and with 40% of the public
votes, Spitaels was seen as the most influential figure in
government (his nickname at the time was "God"). Chairman of the
Organization of European Socialist Parties until March 1992.
Minister-President of Wallonia from 1992 to 1994. Along with
other politicians of his party he was involved in the 1995
Agusta scandal, in which the socialist party was accused of
having accepted large bribes from Agusta (not to mention
Dassault) in the 1988-1989 period. In return, leading Socialist
politicians made sure the Belgian government bought Agusta
helicopters. The affair is said to have been responsible for the
death of Andre Cools in 1991. Spitaels's political career
wouldn't recover from this scandal. In 1997 he was forced to
resign as mayor of Ath, director of Community Credit
(Gemeentekrediet; now Dexia; director since 1989), and chairman
of the Wallonian Parliament. Convicted for "passive corruption"
in the Dassault affair, for which he was given a fine. |
| Count Hervé d'Ursel
|
b. 1930
|
Source(s): X1 (Recognized the
Count as the owner of the "villa des bateaux" [Villa of the
boats] where she had been with Christine van Hees, Nihoul's girl
that was brutally murdered later on; Marie-Cecile d'Ursel did
indeed live in the "villa des bateaux" at Clos des Lauriers 27
in Brussels.); X2 mentioned a "Count d'Ursel" as present at a
meeting with the princes de Merode, the prince and princess of
Chimay and Baron de Bonvoisin.
De Pauw dook in dat jaar 1957 plots op als aandeelhouder van
de vastgoedfirma Terres et Domaines. Dat bedrijf was in 1953
opgericht door onder meer Jean Cruysmans, destijds bestuurder
van de Caisse Privée en van het Zwitserse bankhuis Pictet & Cie.
Andere aandeelhouders waren graaf Philippe d'Ursel, familiaal
verwant met baron Benoît de Bonvoisin, en prins Rodolphe de
Croÿ-Roeulx, de latere voorzitter van de beruchte Cercle des
Nations. De prins werd vervolgens ondervoorzitter van de
Compagnie de Promotion (CDP), de spilvennootschap van de groep
De Pauw.
Belgium high nobility consisting of Duces (these represent
one of the eight families that are still members of the Blue
Salon) and Counts. Husband of Marie-Cecile de Bonvoisin and
brother-in-law of Baron Benoit de Bonvoisin since 1959. Used to
be a member of Cercle des Nations, together with Baron de
Bonvoisin and Paul Vanden Boeynants. Has been convicted for
financial fraud. The d'Ursel family were among the founders of
Caisse Privé Banque in 1949, an elitist private bank headed over
the years by the Cruysmans family (bank had been founded in
1923, but was dissolved and re-established in 1949). Besides
blue blood, the entourage of Paul Vanden Boeynants, including
Charly De Pauw, became heavily involved with the bank. One of
his family members, Count Philippe d'Ursel, was among the
shareholders of Terres et Domaines, a company founded in 1957.
Other shareholders were Prince Rodolphe de Croy-Roeulx, the
later chairman of Cercle des Nations, and the upcoming Charly De
Pauw (accused of child abuse). 1999, Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck,
Annemie Bulte and Douglas De Coninck, 'De X-dossiers', p. 480:
"Pertaining to the facts which would have occurred in a
villa where she noticed a large amount of model ships, X1, after
having been shown a picture, formally recognized the villa of
person F.S. [Count Herve d'Ursel] during the hearing of February
8, 1997 (cfr. pv 150.322/97 February 27, 1997)... What he
[Dernicourt] fails to mention in the re-reader's report, nor in
his separate official report, is that several months before, X1
went to identify the villa of F.S. and that her description of
the route was perfect in every detail. What he also leaves
unmentioned is that F.S. was shadowed twice by the gendarmerie
in early March 1997. He was followed to a chic private club in
the center of Brussels where also a car was parked of the
company of the by X1 fingered abuser businessman S. [Hanet]."
1999, Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck, Annemie Bulte and Douglas De
Coninck, 'De X-dossiers', p. 248: "Present at the first of
three sex parties she [X1] mentioned industrialists Y. and W.,
lawyer E., Annie Bouty, Michel Nihoul, Tony and trader in dogs
from the region of Mechels. What she noticed about the villa,
was a large pool and an impressive collection of model ships
which were exhibited inside just about all over the place
["villa des bateaux" of Count Herve d'Ursel and Marie-Cecile de
Bonvoisin d'Ursel]. The children were forced to watch a sort of
snuff movie, in which, according to X1, two of her children were
tortured. The purpose of the first night was an initiation. The
adults wore SM clothing and butchered a goat and a rabbit in
front of the eyes of the by then unclothed and tied up children.
According to X1, the whole ritual had nothing to do with
satanism and even less with bizarre sexual preferences of the
adults - they hated this - but everything with a well
thought-out method to condition the kids and to prevent that one
of them would ever speak out. After all, stories about butchered
goats, rabbits and men in black leather suits would not be
believed by anyone. With 'Kristien' it went totally wrong, X1
said. She kept resisting, refused to accept what happened to
her. X1 and Mieke, who had to force her to eat the heart of the
freshly-butchered rabbit, tried to keep her silent - which
didn't succeed." |
| Antoine "Tony"
Vandenbogaert |
b. 1942
|
Source(s): X1 (Tony was her pimp who
worked together with Nihoul; confessed to his sexual
relationship with X1, but was allowed to walk); Nathalie W.
(when confronted with a picture of Tony, she said: "This is
Anthony, a friend of Nihoul") Described as unstable,
violent, rude, arrogant and macho. Fluent in French and Dutch.
Worked in the 1980s as a sales representative of a company
involved in manufacturing pet accessories (Gimpet), and was the
most successful among his colleagues. Loved to party and threw
around lots of money every weekend. Even though only a sales
representative, he knew influential people all over Belgium. His
mistress Odette said that Tony regularly dined in Luik/Liege
with a judge, in Gent with a commandant of the police force, and
in Antwerp with a gendarme officer. X1 noted that Tony bragged
everywhere that he was such a good friend of Baron de Bonvoisin
and "a politician" (undoubtedly Paul Vanden Boeynants or Leopold
Lippens). These three men were among X1's most violent abusers.
Tony acted as the pimp of a number of girls in the 1980s,
including Regina, by "borrowing" them from their parents. He
started out by psychologically breaking down and programming the
girls to make them totally obedient and dependent. Then he would
bring these girls to all kinds of parties in clubs, hotels and
villas. During the abuse pictures and video were taken,
sometimes in secret. Tony was also present with X1 during the
production of snuff movies, i.e. movies in which a person
(child) is murdered. Tony often had sex with Regina and her
mother at the same time. When Tony spent more time raping Regina
than having sex with her mother, the mother got jealous. After
Regina moved away with her husband, Tony kept intimidating her.
At one point in 1991-1992, as a 22 year old, Tony forced her to
participate in a murder on what might well have been Katrien de
Cuyper, which was likely done to ensure her silence. After
Dutroux had been caught and Regina began to testify to the
police, Tony was put under police observation from October 18 to
20 and from October 30 to 31, 1996. The first observation was
during the White March in which all of Belgium protested against
the way the Dutroux investigation was handled. For obvious
reasons, Tony never left the house. That is, not between 9:00
and 10:00, because like Operation Othello (on Dutroux) he was
not observed during the night. The second observation also
turned up nothing. Tony was again observed during the months of
March and April 1997. In April he was spotted no less than 21
times near 4 schools, including the school where Katrien de
Cuyper (in which Tony was implicated by X1) went. Although De
Baets, Bourlet and other investigators for obvious reasons
wanted to continue the observation, commandant Duterme and the
Gendarmerie ignored their recommendations. The observation was
cancelled. During the observation, however, it had become known
that Tony was in continuous contact with a gendarme officer from
Antwerp. They would regularly call or email each other. But
interestingly, after this fact became known, this particular
gendarme officer was then appointed to a leading position in the
investigation into Tony V. De Baets and his team reminded their
superiors that this was an obvious conflict of interest.
However, no changes were made, and this gendarme officer became
one of those responsible for dismissing the possibility that the
Katrien described by X1 couldn't possibly have been Katrien de
Cuyper (in who's murder Tony was implicated by X1). Assistant of
Patriek De Baets in interviewing X1 and verifying her story.
March 18, 2003, Zembla (Dutch TV), 'De X-dossiers - Part II' :
"[Patricia van der Smissen, lawyer of Regina Louf:] It was
observed that he phoned this person more than ten times on a day
that he was observed. Maybe he noticed that he was been
shadowed. In any case, he often called this gendarme officer. We
also know that they were in contact over the internet. And from
one day to the next this person is put on the case, after it had
already been known that he was in contact with Tony... [BOB
officer Rudy Hoskens of De Baets' investigating team:] Then you
start asking yourself a few questions, don't you? Then this is
not the right person on the right place. I did complain about
this to my superiors, but this person kept serving on the same
dossier." After X1 had gone public in January 1998, through
very honest articles in De Morgen, Tony again became the subject
of a police/gendarme investigation. Interrogated by the BOB in
Gent for the first time on February 3, 1998. Denied having known
Nihoul, the other people X1 talked about, or even that he had
sex with X1. On March 12, Tony was confronted by three women who
confirmed parts of X1's story. Tony denied having known the
women. On April 23, 1998, Tony was again summoned to the BOB in
Gent to testify for a third time, followed by a confrontation
with Regina. By that time it had already been decided that the
X1 case would be closed in a matter of weeks. Gendarme officers
were joking with Tony and apologized that he had to come all the
way from Antwerp to testify about what they saw was a ridiculous
affair. 1998, Regina Louf (X1), 'Zwijgen is voor Daders,' p.
272: "On April 23, the day of Dutroux's just as spectacular
as ridiculous escape, I am confronted with Tony at the BOB in
Gent. Hours I'm waiting in a stuffy little bureau, with a
Gendarme officer to guard me until I, almost broken from
anxiety, without any preparation am pushed into a room where my
pimp is already chatting comfortably with a Gendarme officer
behind the desk... I know from the BOB officer who brought me to
the bureau that he [Tony] already had made certain
confessions... There are no cameras. Just at this crucial moment
they think video is not necessary... No psychological
assistance. With five men in one room. My anger dissolves and
make way for panic, a claustrophobic feeling and fear. I want to
get away, I'm afraid. There is no break, neither a moment to
recover from the shock to see him again. The Gendarme officer
from Gent explains what I told about the abuse that Tony put me
through. My pimp is right there!... I fight to stay upright, to
not shout out that I will withdraw everything if they just let
me go... He coldly admits that he abused me since I was twelve
years old - he first tried to say it was at 14, but after a
remark from me he admitted I was twelve when it started - in all
sorts of ways, multiple times a week, with the knowledge of my
parents. He admits, with a faint smile on his face, that he had
a key of my parents' house. Faltering, with my head down, I tell
how he lent me out for the first time during parties in Gent. He
nodded and raised his shoulders. He names the man, who I can
only describe, by name. He confesses how he forced my friends
into playing sex games... Only a severely shortened version is
typed out. I watch it in despair. Why aren't they filming? Why
does he get the chance to adapt his version, after they have
asked him the same question a second time, because they hadn't
typed the answer? These are professionals?... I ask for a break,
I want to get away from this stuffy room, but it is refused. So
I use the same trick from my childhood: I have to go to the
bathroom. Danny, the Brussels BOB, follows me closely.
Apparently, I'm better guarded that day than Dutroux... Halfway
down the hall I crawl against the wall. I start to cry, throw my
hands in front of my face, and it hurts so much!... I went to
sit down with my head bent down. I know that I should attack
him, tell him what he had done to me, repeat what I had said
during the interviews. I can't do it. I might be able to do it,
if my therapist was present, or another person I could trust,
but I can't do it when surrounded by people I don't trust and
who are looking at me with scorn... [After the interrogation]
the BOB officer from Gent gives me pat on the shoulders and
tells me I should be happy. Happy? I look at him with flaming
eyes. Happy to hear that he confesses without remorse, that he
is able to go free, that he can make other victims again? Happy
with this consolation prize? Man, get lost. That same day,
before Tony confessed he was my pimp - with the comfort of a man
who knows he's never going to be punished - the magistrates had
decided to begin closing the X-Dossiers, including that of X1."
Only the newspaper De Morgen prominently reported about Tony's
confession. All the others only focused on Dutroux's brief
escape. In late April 1998, substitute magistrate Nicole De
Rouck, who had been involved in bringing together Regina and her
father for an interrogation (intimidation), announced that
Regina (indeed) had sex with Tony since she was 12 years old
(something which the Justice Department would try to spin by
claiming she was 14 years old when the "relationship" began),
but that it happened too long ago for Tony to still be
prosecuted. Then she stated that Regina herself had pursued the
"relationship" with Tony and that only after the Dutroux affair
she came to see it as abuse. Needless to say that several
complaints were filed against De Rouck for publicly defending
pedophilia. On April 28, De Rouck stated: "We have
investigated the testimonies of X1 to the smallest and most
absurd details and all of them have turned out to be incorrect".
1998 conclusion of the Court of Law in Gent: "It has been
established that Regina, between her twelfth and sixteenth year,
had a sexual relationship with a much older and grown man, named
V. Antoine. Regina had this relationship WITH her consent and
not AGAINST her will. Her mother knew about this, allowed the
relationship and even encouraged it. Her mother at least felt a
platonic love for this same V." The investigation into X1
was officially closed on June 2, 1998. Tony walks free and is
barely known. |
| Johan Vandenheuvel |
b. 1950
|
Source(s): X1 (next door
neighbor and abuser of X1) Patron of Hotel Chalet
Tinel, which had a partnership with the grandmother's villa next
door, and at least today seems to own it. |
| Michel Vander Elst |
b. '46 or '47
|
Source(s): X1 (participated with the
Nihoul-Dutroux gang in child tortures, murders and blood
sacrifices (word not mentioned by witness) of animals;
apparently liked it when children sewed his scrotum and penis
together) - also recognized him on a picture
March 25, 1989, Washington Post, 'Belgians arrest kidnapping
suspect': "The lawyer of an alleged gang leader being hunted
for the kidnapping of a former Belgian prime minister has been
arrested on suspicion of masterminding the abduction, the
prosecutor's office said today Michel Vander Elst, 41, was
placed under arrest after nine hours of questioning on suspicion
of being "the author, coauthor or an accomplice in the kidnap"
of Paul Vanden Boeynants, a spokesman said. Other accusations
included extortion and forgery... Vander Elst represents Patrick
Haemers, 36, the alleged leader of a gang being sought by police
for a string of unsolved violent crimes. Vanden Boeynants was
snatched in the garage of his Brussels home Jan. 14 and released
a month later after a ransom payment of up to $2.5 million. The
spokesman charged that Vander Elst had seen some of the
suspected kidnapers after they had rented a villa in the
northern French resort of Le Touquet, where Vanden Boeynants was
held for a month. He said the lawyer also had received calls
from public booths in Le Touquet." Sentenced to 8 years in
jail (released earlier) for having provided false alibis for
members of the Haemers Gang, after they had kidnapped Paul
Vanden Boeynants in 1986. According to Nihoul, he and Vander
Elst met each other in prison in 1989 (although they probably
already knew each other) and became good friends. Member of the
Dolo, the notorious sex club in which Nihoul was also involved.
Named by X1 as among those involved in sadistic games with young
girls and as someone who visited the ASCO torture factory.
Regular advisor to the BVBA Audio Corporation since 1992, which
has been linked to pedophilic practices. Additionally, manager
of the BVBA Audio Corporation was Joseph Schulman, whose brother
Charles was married to the sister of Bernard Weinstein. Provided
an alibi for Nihoul, 11 days after this person was arrested on
suspicions that he was involved in the kidnapping of Laetitia.
Several holes were found in the alibi he and others provided for
Nihoul. Went on to set up a hotel project in Gambia, Africa.
Withdrew an aspect of Nihoul's alibi in May 1999 when he was
briefly in Belgium. He had not been painting with Nihoul on
August 8, the day before Laetitia's kidnapping.
2008 updates:
Michel is the son of Raymond Vander Elst. Both Michel and his
father are named in a 1994 Gendarmerie report as being part of
Felix Przedborski's mafia-intelligence-business-banking
"nebula". According to the report, Przedborski is protected by
team of Mossad agents; in Belgium the Caisse Privee, ASCO, Roger
Boas, Paul Vanden Boeynants and a good number of Socialist
politicians are all tied to this network. November 21, 1994,
Liege Gendarmerie, ATLAS Dossier, confidential rapport on Felix
Przedborski's mafia-intelligence-business-banking "nebula":
"It is known as that within this structure, Felix PRZEDBORSKI
would also be assisted by the following people:... a) The
Brussels lawyers VANDERELST (father and son): 1) Raymond [113]
(the father) - lawyer for PRZEDBORSKI - lawyer for the Grand
Orient of which he would be a member - would work or would have
worked for the law firm of Pierre LAMBERT [PEHI note: Raymond
was a partner in the firm]; 2) Michel [114] (the son) - Stopped
[practicing law] after kidnapping former prime minister Paul
Vanden Boeynants (with the Haemers Gang)." According to the
Dutroux dossier, Raymond Vander Elst is a partner in Lambert &
Associes together with Pierre Lambert.
Haemers Gang gendarmerie file (as published on PEHI website),
pp. 1, 3: "Contact dd 10/03/89 [March 10, 1989] (x 18):
Between mid January '89 and February (before 14 February '89)
there has been contact between the HAEMERS family (Achiel, Lilis
and Bobonne) and Patrick HAEMERS, Denise TYACK and Kevin. This
happened somewhere at a chateau, outside Paris (probably
QARTRES)... During the conversation with his father Patrick told
him that he was behind the VDB case. VDB was well looked after
en he would be dropped off in front of his house. Patrick looked
very good, certainly was not under the influence of narcotics
and had a neatly-cut beard and mustance. - Patrick would have
told Achiel that he worked for an "organization" and that he was
well compensated for his services. The "organization" would pay
the rent of the appartments and they needn't worry about
anything. The organization would consist of influential people
and has their own doctor and lawyers. They would have dangerous
political ideas and Patrick described them as "the dangerous mad
men". Patrick himself isn't the least bit interested in
politics: "It's only the money that counts here". - The contact
between the "organization" and the gang around HAEMERS is a
lawyer, a certain VANDER ELST, who is a friend of TYACK. This
lawyer would live at the the same address as VDB. In any case
Patrick feels he's super-protected by this organization. -
According to the informant, VDB would also have ties to this
organization and his kidnapping has possibly been staged. In any
case VDB is well acquainted with his kidnappers. ---
Additional info:... The lawyer is Michel VANDER ELST, who
usually keeps himself occupied with financial business and has
his bureau in the same building as the appartment of VDB, in the
Franklin Roosevelt avenue... Contact X 18 dd 03/04/89...
Eric HAEMERS would know more about the organization, but would
be afraid to speak about it."
|
| Melchior Wathelet |
b. 1949
|
Source(s): X1 (One of the more
violent child abusers, together with Paul Vanden Boeynants and
Baron de Bonvoisin; Went to the ASCO factory); In PV 151.046,
March 23, 1997, Wathelet is accused by psycho-therapist Pascal
Williams of having arranged an orgy (partouze) in which minors
had to participate. Williams, who was threatened after a
colleague began informing the local police about his work,
apparently was in the possession of one of the invitations.
Williams had worked with two children of 8 and 10 years old who
were satanically abused in a castle in Verviers. The children
were picked up from an orphanage (in any case, they were not
with their biological parents) and were eventually killed in one
of the parties or ceremonies.
Protege of Paul Vanden Boeynants and member of the Partie
Social Chretien (PSC). Member of Parliament 1977-1995. Secretary
of state of economic affairs in Walloon 1980-1981. Minister of
new technologies in Walloon 1981-1985. Prime minister of Wallon
1985-1988. Vice prime minister and justice minister 1988-1992
(with Willy Claes being minister of economics and another vice
prime minister). Among the signers of a bill in 1990 that
legalized abortion Sacked Albert Raes, director of State
Security, in June 1990. Since 1981, Raes had continually been
attacked by Baron de Bonvoisin after this person had largely
been responsible for exposing the fact that de Bonvoisin and
Paul Vanden Boeynants were cultivating a fascist underground.
Fired Flemish examining magistrate Freddy Troch, who had
reopened the Gang of Nijvel case and began to look into the
roles of Brussels police commissioner Frans Reyniers and Baron
de Bonvoisin in this affair. Vice prime minister, justice
minister and minister of economic affairs 1992-1995. Vice prime
minister and minister of defense in 1995. Mayor of Verviers
1995. Belgian judge at the Court of Justice of the European
Union, located in Luxembourg, 1995-2003. Administrator of the
National Organization of the Belgian Railroads since 2004. |
| Yves Zimmer |
b. 1949
|
Source(s): X2 (Came across Zimmer in Club
Platos in Ixelles, where parties with minors were occasionally
held. Jean-Paul Dumont also went to that club, in his case with
young boys. Zimmer had frequent contact with Henri Bil, who was
the personal driver of Paul Vanden Boeynants in the 1970s and
took X1, sometimes with Tony, to the ASCO torture factory)
Officer in the judicial police, who has been close to Frans
Reyniers and Georges Marnette for a long time. Known to have
visited a CIA-NATO-sponsored training camp of Front de la
Jeunesse in the 1980s. Intelligence-connected fascist militia
leaders Paul Latinus and Francis Dossogne worked as informants
for him and Georges Marnette. Accused of interfering in the
Group G investigations of examining magistrate Troch and the
Delta-cell, together with Georges Marnette and Frans Reyniers
(Les Atrebates visitors; Marnette also accused of child abuse).
Head of the sexual abuse department of the Brussels police from
1982 to 1987. Accused by some of extreme incompetence during
this whole period. Ran some strange operations in which female
police officers had to infiltrate in group sex networks in an
effort to find evidence of child abuse at their meetings. As
expected by many, the operation was a huge failure and was
criticized from the start because Zimmer had no expertise at all
in infiltration techniques. Headed a surveillance action against
Chateau Faulx-Les-Tombes, but besides regular sex parties
couldn't find a trace of young children. Met with Dr. Andre
Pinon of the Pinon affair in 1985, but decided not to create any
official reports of these meetings; the content was to
sensitive. Put on non-active in March 1990 by Melchior Wathelet
over the Frans Reyniers case. Sentenced over the Reyniers case,
but was later acquitted. Police commissioner in Aarlen (capital
of Luxemburg province, in which Bertrix and Neufchateau are also
located) and on duty when Laetitia was kidnapped on August 9,
1996. Knew about witness VM1 and went to look him up after
Dutroux was arrested. Turned out that VM1, a gangster, had
become a police informant. His runner was the young gendarme
officer Marc Toussaint. In the presence of Michel Bourlet, Marc
Toussaint and Zimmer, VM1 emotionally testified on February 16,
1997 how he had been a child prostitute for Phillipe Cryns in
and around Le Mirano and how he had seen child murders, etc.
Somehow, within two days of this meeting word got out that VM1
was talking to police. VM1 was threatened to shut up and to hand
over any evidence he had if he wanted to live longer than a
week. |
Accused by Count Yann de Meeus d'Argenteuil
Background information on Count Yann can be found the
'victims
and witnesses' appendix.
| Chevalier Pierre Bauchau
|
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Honorary chairman and president of Banque Belgolaise,
established in Congo in 1909 (Zaire/Congo is the former colony
of Belgium). This bank entirely focuses on Africa and is
majority owned by the Fortis Bank, of which the Belgian branch
has been headed by such figures as Maurice Lippens, Etienne
Davignon, Baron Daniel Janssen and Guy de Selliers de
Moranville. The bank has offices in Brussels, Paris, London,
Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa. Bauchau
is one of the primary sponsors of Université Senghor
d'Alexandrie, together with Gianni Agnelli. Donated some costly
antiques to the King Baudouin Foundation. |
| Yves Boël |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
The Boël family historically is one of the most important
financial families of Belgium with large stakes in Societe
Generale and the Solvay chemical concern. When Solvay went
public in 1967 the Solvay and Boël families retained control of
this corporation through a private holding company, Union
Financiere Boel. Chairman of Solvay SA until 1998. Chairman of
SA Sofina, a financial holding company majority-owned by Union
Financière Boël. Directors were-are three Boëls, Baron Daniël
Janssen, Etienne Davignon, and Mutuelle Solvay. Chairman of
Societe des Glaces de Moustier-sur-Sambre, a holding company
with interests in Danone, Sofina and Danasia, which is majority
owned by Union Financière Boël. Chairman of SA Henex, which is
owned by the Boël family and manages a portfolio of investments
like Electrabel, Sofina, Generale de Banque and Glaces de
Charleroi. Chairman of Finasucre Sugar Group, owned by the
Lippens family and an almost worldwide producer of sugar and
milk acid. 1974, Anthony Rowley, 'The Barons of European
Industry', p. 117: "The original base of the Boël industrial
empire is the Fabrique de Fer de Charleroi steelworks, but they
are also important shareholders in La Generale (S.G. de Banque,
that is) Traction et Electricite, Electrobel, Sofina, Solvay &
Compagnie and Glaverbel. The neatly interlocking holdings of the
Boel and Janssen families can be found in a host of Belgian
companies and their outlook is generally in sympathy with that
of Societe Generale where, of course, the Solvay holding
compounds the power of the trio." Former chairman of the
holding company Sidro SA, which invests primarily in companies
in the oil and gas industry. Vice-chairman of World Wide
Projects Inc. Director of Advent Management Belgium. Former
director of Groupe Danone and still a consultant and honorary
administrative council member (Michel David-Weill, owner of
Lazard, is among the members today and president of its
Committee of Remunerations). Member of the Fondation Francqui
(established by Emile Francqui and Herbert Hoover in 1932). Just
as Davignon, former vice-chairman and chairman of Tractebel (now
Suez-Tractebel, owned by Société Générale/Suez). In 2002,
Tractebel was accused of business dealings with the billionaire
(mafia) oligarchs in Kazakstan, and their ally, Kazakh President
Nursultan Nazarbayev. Among these Oligarchs were Patokh Chodiev
and Alijan Ibragimov, both closely connected to their London
business partners. Former member of the European Round Table
(ERT), together with Baron Daniel Janssen and Viscount Etienne
Davignon. |
| Raymond Bossuyt |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Judge. Substitute prosecutor of the king at the Court of
Appeals in Brussels at least in 1998-1999. |
| Baron Hubert de Crawhez
|
1935-2003
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Born in 1935. The family owned Chateau Frandeux from the
1930s to the 1980s. Married Nicole van Zuylen in 1962. The
family set up the Fonds Crawhez contre la leucémie (Crawhez
Foundation against leukemia), which had its projects organized
by the King Baudouin Foundation. Died from a cerebral hemorrhage
in 2003. |
| Prince Henri de Croy |
b. 1958
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Officially a count, but styles himself a prince. Seems to be
a descendent of the very noble medieval de Croy family of
Flanders, which is tightly linked to the House of Chimay
(accused of arranging child hunts at their domain) and are both
members of the Blue Salon. Friend of the Belgian royal family.
In 2001, he became wanted in Belgium for an embezzlement case.
Fled to France, but was caught in early 2006. |
| Baron Eric d'Huart |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Great grandchild of the Comte de Paris. Owner of the Waux
Hall, a monumental house, where the baron has transformed what
used to be the ruins of an old open air theatre into a splendid
home. It is located in the Parc de Bruxelles, among the greenery
behind Théatre du Parc and Cercle Gaulois. The CEO Future Forces
Roundtable was held there in June 2002. |
| Benoit Dejemeppe
|
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs d'Argenteuil
(gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being involved in
the trafficking of children and drugs; committed suicide a year
later)
Melchior Wathelet, a protege of Vanden Boeynants who has been
accused of child abuse (in the presence of Bouty at times), was
responsible for Dejemeppe's appointment to prosecutor of the
king in Brussels. Good friend of Raymond Desmet, who in turn was
a close associate of the notorious Jean-Paul Dumont. After Anne
Bouty had been arrested, together with Nihoul, Dejemeppe
contacted the controversial police commissioner Georges Marnette
and informed about the case against Bouty. Dejemeppe questioned
if there was enough evidence for her arrest and proposed to
transfer her dossier out of the pedophilia dossier and into the
car fraud dossier. This intervention of an outside judge was so
unusual that investigators at Neufchateau wrote a report about
it. Dejemeppe initially denied having made such an inquiry, but
was later forced to admit it. The Sprout: "Amongst the many
spiders and webs in the Belgian networks of influence, one of
the greatest is that in which Benoît Dejemeppe is at the centre.
During his upward career in the legal system of Brussels he has
been responsible for a plethora of paedophile cases, many of
them handled incompetently... or worse. The Sprout asks how such
an experienced and capable man - who now serves as a high court
judge - be responsible for such a catalogue of mistakes? And how
is it that his route to promotion has never been blocked,
despite them? During April of 1997, a parliamentary committee
investigating the handling of the Dutroux case said that the
young girls who were murdered might have been alive today, if
the police had not made so many mistakes during the
investigation into the pedophile ring. The committee further
recommended that Brussels prosecutor Benoit Dejemeppe be
dismissed because he failed to do his job properly. Other
officials were found responsible for the deaths of the girls.
Investigators were charged with ignoring warnings by informants
during a crucial stage during the investigation, mistreating the
parents of the victims and failing to pass on vital information
between prosecutors and police. Moreover, the report called for,
"an overhaul of Belgium's police, replacing the current three
services -- the local police, judicial police and the national
gendarmerie - with one local and one national service.""
Dejemeppe has never been prosecuted or fired for his mistakes. A
cousin of Dejemeppe was found murdered on November 14, 1992.
Dejemeppe's brother is married to Grazia Menegalli, the daughter
of a well-known Italian family which has strong interests in the
casino industry, gaming and property markets. Present at
meetings of the Obelix Cell, the coordinating meetings of the
Dutroux affair in the first half of 1997, together with Andre
Vandoren, Patrick Duinslaeger, Jean-Claude Van Espen, Michel
Bourlet, Jean Soenen, Nicole De Rouck, Paule Somers, Jacques
Langlois, a number of gendarme officers, leaders of
investigating teams, judicial police officers and criminal
analysts. X1 largely dominated the agenda of these meetings.
|
| Jean-Philippe Elise
|
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Principal police commissioner in the Criminal Investigation
Department of Namur. |
| Dr. Jean Louis Feys |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
A Belgian psychiatrist at Clinique Sanatia Bruxelles
Belgique, a neuropsychology institute. |
| Alain Geerinckx |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Substitute prosecutor of the king in Brussels. Belgian
Chamber of the People's Representatives, report of the late
afternoon of May 23, 2000, Public Meeting of the Commission of
Justice: "Mr. Tony Van Parys (CVP) : In the Belgisch
Staatsblad [newspaper] of last May 16 the appointment of Mr.
Geerinckx to first substitute prosecutor of the king in Brussels
was announced. Mr. Geerinckx played a role in the investigation
of Loubna Benaissa. In the parliamentary investigating committee
it was determined that the District Attorney's office under the
leadership of Mr. Geerinckx didn't conduct a proper succession
and had failed to follow a number of leads. He is accused of not
taking his profession seriously. Is the appointment of Mr.
Geerinckx really compatible with those findings? Minister Marc
Verwilghen (in Dutch): ... In case of the Loubna Benaisse
dossier the person involved has not been subject to disciplinary
sanctions. This is a decision of the Privy Council and cannot be
overruled by the Minister of Justice." Loubna Benaissa
disappeared in August 1992. She was found on March 5, 1997 in
the basement of the 28 year old Patrick Derochette. The
disappearance of Benaissa produced leads to the registrar of
magistrate Jean-Claude Van Espen, who did everything he could to
close the X-investigations; the paedophile Roland Corvillain,
indirectly tied to Logitel in which Nihoul, Lelievre and Martin
were involved, apparently in human trafficking; and the
Christine Van Hees case, which was overseen by Van Espen. |
| Baron Daniel Janssen |
b. 1936
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Born in 1936. Part of one of the more influential Catholic
blue blood families of Belgium, together with the Solvays,
Boëls, Davignons, and Lippens. Graduated as Civil Engineer from
Brussels University in 1958, and received his Certificate in
Nuclear Physics in 1959. Cabinet Attaché at the Euratom
Commission 1959-1960. MBA from Harvard University 1962. Joined
UCB in 1962, a Belgian pharmaceutical company that produces
antiepileptics, antiallergics, tranquillizers, etc. Lecturer at
Brussels University from 1965 to 1972. Chairman of the Executive
Committee of UCB from 1975 to 1984. Still vice-chairman of the
Executive Committee and Board of Directors of UCB. Chairman of
the Federation of Belgian Chemical Industries from 1976 to 1979.
Chairman of the Federation of Belgian Enterprises from 1981 to
1984. Chairman of the Executive Committee of Solvay SA
1986-1998. Solvay is a very large producer of chemicals (like
fluor), pharmaceuticals (like antidepressants), and plastics.
President of European Chemical Industry Council (CEFIC)
1991-1992. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Solvay SA since
1998. Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Solvay Business
School. Director of Fortis SA/NV and Sofina. Founding member of
the Belgian Commission on Corporate Governance in 2004, which is
headed by Maurice Lippens. The Janssen's main investments,
besides Solvay, are in Financiere de Tubize, Financiere
d'Obourg, and UCB (own about 18%). Often went to the Trilateral
Commission, together with his brother Paul-Emmanuel. Member of
the European Round Table of Industrialists (Etienne Davignon's
idea). Has been chairman of the ERT's industrialists' working
group on competitiveness. Visited Bilderberg multiple times.
Trustee of Friends of Europe, of which the president is Etienne
Davignon. Has spoken at Forum Europe. Associate member Club of
Rome. He sits on the Board of the Belgian American Educational
Foundation and is a patron of INSEAD (together with
representatives from all the large international banks). Brother
of Baron Paul-Emmanuel Janssen, who is a member of the CFR, the
Trilateral Commission, and a former governor of the Atlantic
Institute if International Affairs. His brother has also been a
chairman of Generale de Banque until 1998. Both are close
associates of Viscount Etienne Davignon. |
| Georges de Kerchove
|
b. 1948
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Full name is Georges de Kerchove d'Exaerde. Attorney in
Brussels who prefers 1) civil responsibility; insurances 2)
penal right 3) right of the family (marriage, divorce,
filiation, adoption) 4) right of the strangers. A family member,
with whom he shares his office focuses on European law and law
dealing with societies and organizations. September 28, 1996,
"penaliste" Georges de Kerchove in Le Soir: "Mr. Connerotte
has been seen with Sabine and Laetitia in presence of the press.
A judge cannot give the impression that he feels sympathy for
one or the other party in the trial... The presumption of
innocence must remain intact for Dutroux." In other words,
Kerchove supported the action that Connerotte was to be kicked
off the Dutroux-Nihoul investigation, which led to massive
protests in Belgium and the general assumption that there was a
cover up. January 15, 1998, Agence CIP, 'Brussels: the court
would like hear cardinal Danneels': "Cardinal Godfried
Danneels, archbishop of Malines[Mechelen]-Brussels, could be
summoned as a witness in the affair of abbot Andre Vanderlyn,
former vicar of a parish in the capital, arrested in June 1997
and prosecuted for charges of rape committed over twenty years
[actually, 30 years] of about ten miners aged 10 to 18 years...
Last December 18, after having heard the testimony of
monseigneur Paul Lanneau, assistant bishop to cardinal Danneels,
Georges de Kerchove, attorney of the civilian party, had asked
and received from the court permission to cite the archbishop
and his assistant as "civilly responsible" for the acts
committed by the priest over whom they had authority." In
April 1998, Vanderlyn was sentenced to six years in prison for
molesting three children and his bishop was ordered to pay
$14,000 to only one victim. The Belgian court ruled that
Cardinal Danneels and a local bishop were responsible for the
abuse because they were the supervisors of the priest, and were
ordered to pay damages totaling $14,000 to one of the victims.
In September, in appeal, Danneels was acquitted of his
responsibility for the actions of Vanderlyn. In 2004, Cardinal
Danneels was featured in The Sprout as being involved and
blackmailed over a tape on which the torture and murder of Julie
and Melissa could be seen. The issue of the Sprout was taken out
of the stores within hours and interestingly, the media did not
start a debate over the pictures of the autopsy on Julie and
Melissa, which, according to the Sprout, showed that they had
been tortured before their death, and did not just die from
starvation as claimed by Dutroux. Kerchove is a long time human
rights activist. Chairman of ATD Quart Monde (4th world)
Walloon-Brussel (Belgium) 1987-1988 and again since 1992. This
is a Catholic organization aimed at somehow relieving the world
of poor people. Member of Carnet Mondain, "the Yearbook of
distinguished Belgian families", together with Chevalier
Charles de Selliers de Moranville and wife (accused of
involvement in the child abuse network), Baron Guibert de Viron
(a family member is accused of trafficking drugs and children,
and is married into the de Caters family who has also been
accused), Jacques G. Jonet (accused of covering up the Pinon
Affair; once Otto von Habsburg's political secretary; through
his involvement with Mouvement d'Action pour l'Unite Europeenne
he came at CEPIC and PDG headquarters), Count Henri d'Udekem
d'Acoz (family married into the royal family and are close to
the Knights of Malta), Countess Rodolphe d'Ursel (a family
member is accused of being part of the abuse network of Baron de
Bonvoisin, to whom this family is close). |
| Baron Lambert |
-
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
According to the Rothschild's official archives, the banker
Lazare Richtenberger became an agent of the Rothschilds in
Brussels around 1830. Samuel Lambert took over from
Richtenberger (his father-in-law) in 1840 and continued to act
as an agent of the Rothschilds. The business developed in
Brussels by Samuel Lambert and continued by his son Léon in 1875
is the origin of Banque Bruxelles Lambert. From the early days
there are many reports on the businesses that James de
Rothschild in particular wanted the firm to pursue the financing
of a railroad system (like the Morgans, Harrimans and Schiffs in
the United States). Members of the Rothschild family would often
come to Brussels, most often James, and comments on social and
political events affecting the markets.
Leon Lambert was born in 1851. In 1875, he started working in
Brussels as a representative of the Rothschilds. He also
fulfilled diplomatic functions and became the most important
financial advisor to King Leopold II, whose brother had just
built Chateau des Amerois. Lambert married Zoë Lucie de
Rothschild in 1882. She was the only daughter of Gustave de
Rothschild and Cécile Anspach. Baron Lambert oversaw a large
part of the financial matters in Congo, which became private
property of the king in 1885. Ironically, the Rothschild-backed
Cecil Rhodes was one of Leopold's competitors in Africa. In
1886, the Lamberts were created Baron and Baroness by King
Leopold II. King Albert I once called Baron Lambert "a real
Jew and a snob".
La Compagnie Lambert was the holding firm for Banque Lambert.
After 1945, Banque Lambert rapidly developed its services and
network, notably through the merger of a number of
privately-owned banks. The Nation mentioned on February 13,
1967: "Banque Lambert is said to be controlled by cousins of
the Paris branch of the Rothschild banking family." Banque
Lambert and Banque de Bruxelles (founded in 1871) merged in 1975
to form Banque Bruxelles Lambert (BBL). The holding companies of
these two institutions had been merged in 1972. Around the same
time, Groupe Bruxelles Lambert bought a controlling stake in the
New York investment firm Drexel Burnham, making it Drexel
Burnham Lambert, which became one of the largest investment
houses of the late 1970s to mid 1980s. At the beginning of 1998,
BBL became a wholly-owned subsidiary of ING Group.
Another later Baron Leon Lambert was born in 1930. This
Lambert has been director of Société Générale de Banque. As
president of Banque Bruxelles Lambert he attended the first
meeting of the Trilateral Commission in 1973 and attended in
that position until the mid-1980's. Also attended Bilderberg
meetings. 2002, David Rockefeller, 'Memoirs', p. 207: "We
[Chase; mid 1970s] approached three banks in the Rothschild
Group. Since both Evelyn de Rothschild, chairman of L.M.
Rothschild, and Leon Lambert, chairman of Banque Lambert (a
Rothschild through his mother), were personal friends, I had
positive initial conversations with them." President of
Compagnie Generale d'Enterprises Electrique which owned about
fifty power companies in the late 1980s. Died in 1987.
In 1978, EIR identified Baron Pierre Lambert, "the
Belgian cousin of the Rothschild family and proprietor of the
Banque Bruxelles-Lambert," as a director of Assicurazioni
Generali. Other directors of Assicurazioni Generali at the time,
according to EIR, were Elie de Rothschild, Baron August Von
Finck, Jocelyn Hambro, and several old Italian families.
Baron Philippe Lambert is the younger brother of the late
Baron Leon Lambert, and was born in 1930. He married to Baroness
Marion Lambert. Phillipe has been a director of RIT (Rothschild)
Capital Partners since 1988, the year after his brother died.
President of Banque Bruxelles Lambert Suisse and member of the
Board of Directors of Banque Bruxelles Lambert SA until April
1997. At this moment, BBL became a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Dutch ING Group. President of Global Asset Management
(Schweiz) AG. Also a honorary director of GBL and ING Belgium.
In December 1997, Vincent Meyer, the grandson of Lazard
banker André Meyer and president of the London-based
Philharmonia Orchestra, was arrested after Belgian banker Baron
Philippe Lambert and his wife Marion, who were family friends,
accused Meyer of having raped their daughter multiple times as a
young girl and being responsible for her suicide over it in
October 1997. Meyer was released on a bail of £2.5 million, and
in 2001 the court dropped the charges against him. The Lamberts
appealed but anno 2006 Meyer still retains his positions at the
Philharmonia Orchestra. According to the Marion in 2005: "In
truth my family used to be equally naive, believing sex abuse
could never be committed by people like us: educated, civilised,
lovers of art and music, anyone who could use a knife and fork.
But the impulse to molest a child is an illness, like cancer,
and like all sexual behaviour cannot be defined by upbringing or
intelligence." |
| Count Jean-Pierre de
Launoit |
unknown
|
Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
In 1871, de Launoit family were founders and subsequent heads
of Banque de Bruxelles, behind Société Générale the largest
financial and industrial group in Belgium. Like Societe
Generale, the group's importance in industries as coal and
metallurgy gave it a degree of influence in virtually all
branches of Belgian industry. It took an active role in the
management of corporations it had a significant stake in. Banque
de Bruxelles merged with the Rothschild's Banque de Lambert in
1975 to form Groupe Bruxelles de Lambert (GBL). Count Paul de
Launoit and his brother, Arsene de Launoit, were close business
associates of the Lamberts. In 1998, GBL became a wholly owned
subsidiary of the ING banking group.
Count Jean-Pierre de Launoit is vice-chairman Emeritus of ING
Belgium NV, which is part of the large Dutch-owned financial
services/banking group. Former vice-chairman and now honorary
managing director of Groupe Bruxelles Lambert. GBL has stakes in
three major French companies: Total Fina Elf S.A, Suez Group,
and Imerys. The firm also holds a quarter of German media
conglomerate Bertelsmann. The Canadian Power Corporation of the
Desmarais family and the Charleroi Group of the Frère family
control GBL. Launoit is chairman of Axa Royale Belge, a large
banking and insurance group. Director of VIOHALCO S.A., the
parent company of the largest Greek metals group of companies.
Director of GB-INNO-BM N.V. Co-vice-chairman of the Cercle de
Lorraine and member of Cercle de Wallonië. President of the
Alliance Française de Bruxelles-Europe, which is an organization
mainly set up to disseminate French language and culture. Member
of the Supervisory Board of BOZAR Music of which Etienne
Davignon is chairman. Honorary committee member of the Le
concours Long-Thibaud Institution (music), together with the
late Prince Rainier. Chairman of La Monnaie Opera Friends
Society of which the patron is princess Mathilde (Dame of
Malta). Member of the Steering Committees of other
opera/music/art institutions. Member of the Board of Management
of the Queen Elisabeth Music Foundation. Chairman of the Queen
Elisabeth Competitions. Good friend of King Albert II and Queen
Fabiola, the latter being the wife of King Baudouin of Belgium.
He accompanied King Albert II during his speech on Belgium's
National Holiday on July 21, 2005. Grand Officer of the Order of
Leopold since July 2005, the highest military order of Belgium.
President of the support committee of the Belgian Kids
Foundation for Pediatric Research. Countess Maurice Lippens sits
on the same board. A Barbara De Selliers De Moranville
co-organized a huge party for 3500 children in the garden of
Countess François d'Ansembourg, which was part of the Belgian
Kids Foundation. Patron of the support committee of the Belgian
Kids Foundation is Princess Astrid. |
| Col. Alain Lemasson |
unknown
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
District commander of the Gendarmerie in Charleroi.
Commandant of l'Ecole des Cadres. |
| Philippe de Patoul |
unknown
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Educated at the Université Catholique de Louvain and the
Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales in Brussels. Began his
professional career at Banque Lambert (GBL since 1975) of the
Rothschild cousins. Worked with Moret Gudde Brinkman
International from 1974 to 1980, an international group of Dutch
tax lawyers. Senior partner in Philippe de Patoul International
Business Consultants since 1981. One of two founders and
director of TNN Trust & Management Ltd. in Luxembourg since
1995. The other founder was Bernard de Merode, who is married to
a sister of Baron de Bonvoisin and works at Risk Analysis, a
firm headed by two retired very senior MI5 agents. Director of
FIDES Asset Management until at least 2003. |
| Prince Alexandre of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha |
b. 1942
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Born in 1942. HRH Prince Alexandre of Belgium. Eldest son of
King Leopold III and Princess Liliane de Rety, the latter being
accused of child murders. Half brother to present King Albert
II. Some scholars maintain that Prince Alexandre still is
legally in line to the throne (currently 12th), but the public
generally acknowledges that descendants of Albert's second
marriage have no right to the throne. |
| Baron Aldo Vastapane
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unknown
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Son of a poor Italian immigrant. As minister of the
middle-classes in 1958 Paul Vanden Boeynants gave Vastapane a
monopoly on tobacco-free stores at the new airport of Zaventem.
This set the bases for Vastapane's (obscure) business empire.
The family business is the Alva group. Does business in Belgium,
South-Africa, Congo, Rumania, and the United States. Alva Corp.
owns a bunch of apartment buildings and offices in Phoenix,
Arizona. Bought 1000 hectares in Rumania in 2002, which is a
country where western elites, including King Juan Carlos, go and
organize huntings on bears and boars. Honorary director at
Groupe Bruxelles Lambert (GBL), together with bigwigs as Count
Jean-Pierre de Launoit, Count Jean-Jacques de Launoit, Count
Maurice Lippens, Baron Albert Frere, Gerald Frere, Paul
Desmarais Sr. & Jr., and Jean-Louis Beffa. Director of the
Atenor Group, a real estate company, with what appears to be his
son, and together with Albert and Marc De Pauw. Bought Sobelair
in 2001, which used to be Sabena, but it went bankrupt in 2004.
Didn't cost Vastapane a thing. Vastapane is a good friend of
Charly De Pauw, Etienne Davignon, Count Maurice Lippens, Albert
Frère, and Mobutu (1001 Club). When Mobutu was in power in Zaire
(Congo) he made Vastapane the exclusive importer of Mercedes and
Martini. There are rumors that Aldo Vastapane is the real father
of Prince Laurent, normally considered the youngest son of King
Albert II and Queen Paola. Vastapane considers this a lie from
Jean Nicolas, the "dirt writer" from Luxembourg. Received a
barony from the Belgian royal family in 2006. Claims he loves
good food, good wine and beautiful women, and is a very honest
man. 76 years back in 2002. |
| Axel Vervoordt
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unknown
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later);
According to X1, children were tortured and killed in the
gatekeeper's apartment on a domain owned by Philippe de Caters.
Among them was Katrien de Cuyper. Axel Vervoordt is-was his
neighbor at the time. However, the X-Files book already briefly
mentioned this fact, before Count Yann's list became known.
Very well respected art dealer. Began his career as an art
and antiques dealer in the late 1960s, when he meticulously
renovated a narrow street with sixteen of the oldest houses in
Antwerp. In 1986, his company moved to a castle in the woods of
's-Gravenwezel, a small village just north-east of Antwerp. This
estate is right next to the Castle Kattenhof, which was pointed
out by Regina Louf as the place where she was forced into
torturing and killing of what seems to have been Katrien De
Cuyper. His client base consists of extremely rich businessmen
from all over Europe and the United States. Friend and decorator
of the Belgian royal family. Sting, Bill Gates, and Madonna are
among his clients, supposedly just as the Rothschilds, Saudi
royals, Otto von Habsburg, and Hans Melchers (of the Dutch
Melchemie who was involved in selling chemicals to Iraq in the
1980s). According to Michel van Rijn, Vervoordt not only
exhibited art looted by the Nazis from the Adolphe Schloss
collection in his booth at the fair in Maastricht, he seems to
have also been a paedophile. June 2001, Michel van Rijn:
"Axel Vervoordt, dealer in Schloss Art, has been accused by his
house guest, Amy Page [US art journalist], of fucking and raping
young boys. During a visit to my house in Rome, Amy told me that
Axel's favourite boys were aged between 6 and 12. Now that I
have evidence from Amy on tape telling me about Axel's hobby, I
guess you don't want to be seen dead in the company of such a
predacious paedophile, unless of course you share the same hobby
as this low-life. If it wasn’t for the work of alert and
hard-hitting investigative journalist, Jan Portein [Kleintje
Muurkrant], these serious allegations might have faded into
oblivion." Van Rijn: "The Vervoordts' comment: "We
heard on Tuesday of the murder story in the castle for the first
time. Sir, we’re bent over laughing." Meanwhile the detectives
are already in the castle looking for comparisons to the X1
story. The resident continues, "Our castle appears regularly in
the news because we hold open houses. Thousands of people could
describe this place. This castle has appeared in numerous
publications. The press have covered it in dozens of stories.
Maybe a mythomaniac like X1 used it to locate one of her stories
in our castle." ... Our Comment: We don't see what's so funny
about the Dutroux case!" Excerpt of the conversation
between Amy Page and van Rijn, secretly taped by van Rijn:
"Amy: "...I mean, Axel is not a bad man". Van Rijn: "Beside the
fact that he likes little boys, he's a nice guy". Amy: "No
more". Van Rijn: "Oh, no more?" Amy: "Not for years". Van Rijn:
"He sees the light now?" Amy: "Well, I mean ... Axel is changed.
He became very much the pater familias, you know"..." Van
Rijn used to be a notorious art smuggler who somehow made a deal
with Scotland Yard and is now exposing criminals in the art
world himself. |
| Baron André de Viron
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unknown
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Appointed ambassador of Belgium to Barbados, Guyana,
Suriname, Trinidad-en-Tobago, Jamaica, Haïti, and the Dominican
Republic in 1998. Appointed ambassador to Caracas, Venezuela in
1999. Married née Amélie de Caters, apparently of the family
accused by X1, and had two children in 2003 and 2004. |
| Princesse Stéphanie de
Winoise Graetz |
b. 1909
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Source(s): Count Yann de Meeûs
d'Argenteuil (gave a list in 1999 of people he accused of being
involved in the trafficking of children and drugs; committed
suicide a year later)
Princess Stéphanie of Windisch-Graetz. Born in 1909. A great
granddaughter of Franz Ferdinand von Habsburg, who's death was
the trigger for WWI. Granddaughter of Princess Stephanie of
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha and Rudolf of Habsburg-Lorraine. Daughter of
Prince Otto zu Windisch-Graetz (1873-1952) and Archduchess
Elizabeth von Habsburg (1883-1963). She first married Count
Pierre d'Alcantara de Querrieu (1907-1944). The Count died in a
concentration camp at Oranienburg in WWII. She later married
Carl Axel Bjorklund (1906-1986). The Princess made an
international career as an artist. Especially her photographic
portraits using only candles as a source of light caught the
attention of the international press. Went to live in Brussels.
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